Intimidation
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Indeed, no sooner did our meeting finish, and with the world commemorating International Human Rights Day, the Syrian regime launched a massive campaign of arrests and
intimidation
directed against some of the country’s most prominent dissidents.
Moreover, 68% of respondents said that they would participate in political action only if they had access to a safe and trusted platform that would protect them from victimization, intimidation, or reprimand.
It has been proven repeatedly that military
intimidation
of civilians does not break their morale and turn them against their own leaders, however terrible the regime.
In one corner is the EU, standing for democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and institutionalized international cooperation; in the other stands Putin, representing authoritarianism, intolerance, and the use of force and
intimidation
as instruments of foreign policy.
Increased censorship and
intimidation
of foreign journalists, together with the imprisonment of dissidents and tighter restrictions on dissent, are an effort to ensure that economic disruption does not give rise to political rebellion.
Photographs of the incident show Putin grinning like a schoolyard bully at this act of
intimidation.
When indigenous leaders of Oaxaca’s local fishing community complained that the new facilities would have a negative impact on their source of income and way of life, they were subjected to acts of intimidation, judicial prosecutions, and physical attacks.
These include threats, intimidation, detention, sexual harassment, and violent attacks by governments, corporations, security forces, or other third parties with a stake in where aid funds end up.
For far too long, Rajapaska’s government has been evading accountability with an endless stream of diversionary maneuvers (usually involving committees of inquiry intended to lead nowhere, and duly complying), denial of physical access, outright dissimulation, and relentless verbal
intimidation
of anyone daring to question it.
The European Commission’s agreement in September to postpone full implementation of Ukraine’s association agreement with the European Union – the agreement that Ukrainians fought and died for in Kyiv last winter – signaled to Putin that cunning, force, and
intimidation
can win Western acquiescence in his subjugation of Ukraine and theft of Crimea.
After all, Ukraine is not the only country under the gun, as Putin’s recent threats to “protect” Russian citizens in Kazakhstan, not to mention his
intimidation
of the Baltic states, attest.
Russia under Vladimir Putin seems determined to use
intimidation
and force to restore lost parts of its empire.
There were no gas chambers, and arguably the motivation for Stalin’s killings was not genocide, but rather the
intimidation
and suppression of real or imaginary opposition to his rule.
The End of the New World OrderDENVER – Russia’s annexation of Crimea and ongoing
intimidation
of Ukraine appears to mean the end of a 25-year period whose hallmark was an effort to bring Russia into greater alignment with Euro-Atlantic goals and traditions.
As Islamist parties have taken power in the region, a wave of
intimidation
and discrimination has been unleashed on Christian minority populations.
The reasons seem obvious: the military regimes lacked legitimacy and were ultimately based on force and intimidation, while the monarchical dynasties seem to be anchored in history, tradition, and religion.
Intimidation
and suppression can only breed hostility among ordinary Taiwanese.
The Chinese government should contemplate the merits of greater openness in Tibet and put a stop to
intimidation
and harassment, which merely breed further frustration and resentment.
But this effort at
intimidation
failed, and Gul won.
His idea of making a deal is to overwhelm the other party with bluff and intimidation, hence his promise to “totally destroy North Korea” (a promise, by the way, that would mean more than 20 million dead).
They are often subject to punishingly long working hours, non-payment of wages, forced confinement, starvation, beating, sexual abuse, and threats and
intimidation.
These groups frequently challenge law and order through intimidation, extortion, and violence.
Resorting to thugs to carry out widespread intimidation, and blaming violence on the largely peaceful protests of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Egyptians, as their government has done, is not a good omen.
While it may seem alarmist to suggest that freedom of expression in India is in peril, the atmosphere of
intimidation
by inflamed mobs, to whom governments surrender all too willingly, is palpable.
By permitting these intolerant bullies to get away with their lawless acts of intimidation, we are allowing them to do violence to something vital to India’s survival as a civilization.
They are doing this by the use of terrorism and by brutal
intimidation
of the civilian population and in defiance of the expressed and plain will of the international community.
Indeed, the presidential election degenerated into a crude exercise in ballot rigging and voter
intimidation.
According to a report presented to the Council of Europe, a pattern of violence and legal abuses directed at journalists has begun to take root in several European countries, threatening to stifle free, independent media with censorship and
intimidation.
The threats to media freedom in Europe are all too apparent: intimidation, attacks, and murder; legal harassment and wrongful imprisonment; and official controls, criminal libel laws, and intolerable political and commercial pressure on journalists.
In April, efforts to organize anti-government protests were met with official threats and
intimidation.
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