Updated Feb. 24, 2020

A grand jury in Chicago has filed a new indictment against the actor Jussie Smollett, accusing him of lying to the police about a hate crime detectives say he staged. The charges revived the case against Mr. Smollett 11 months after prosecutors abruptly dropped it. On Monday, Mr. Smollett pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer said she was seeking to have the case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds.

The charges were filed after a special prosecutor, Dan K. Webb, took a new look at the case after a judge ruled that the Cook County state’s attorney, Kim Foxx, had not properly recused her office.

[Read more about the new indictment.]

Here’s a timeline of how we got here.

Jan. 29: Mr. Smollett, who is black and gay, tells the police that at about 1:30 a.m., two masked men he believed to be white attacked him on the 300 block of East Lower North Water Street in downtown Chicago. The assailants, according to Mr. Smollett, hurled homophobic and racial slurs at him, put a rope around his neck and poured a chemical substance on him.

Mr. Smollett says he went home and a close associate of his reported the incident to the police 40 minutes after it happened. Anthony Guglielmi, the chief spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, later told The Chicago Sun-Times that Mr. Smollett had been hesitant to call the police because of his status as a public figure.