Meanings of tried for crimes in English

Maybe they're afraid of being tried for crimes against humanity.

They might be tried for crimes against humanity.

Well, murdered, really, because it wasn't as though they were tried for crimes against the state or anything.

Charles Taylor, the former president and key architect for both countries' wars, has never been tried for crimes in Liberia.

Rights groups like Amnesty International have long called for the country's top officials to be tried for crimes against humanity over the Rohingya crisis.

As a result, international pressure groups have called for Mugabe to be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

I've been tried for crimes on the Moon, in other centuries, other dimensions, and I'll be damned if I won't put my name on them.

"I assumed the captain planned to turn 'em over to UN authority so they could be tried for crimes against humanity."