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Despite official efforts at
intimidation
– for example, voters were forced to identify themselves in official party booths at the risk of being disqualified from social programs – abstention reached record levels.
And at the “street level,” the advocacy group Jewish Human Rights Watch maintains an excellent website that monitors PSC and BDS acts of
intimidation.
The establishment of “national security” and “fighting terrorism” as stalking horses for
intimidation
of journalists who are doing their jobs – exposing government abuses to the light of day – gives the state an even more effective tool to suppress investigative reporting.
Campaigners from groups fighting child marriage, child trafficking, and child labor, and from groups demanding children’s right to attend school, free of intimidation, have united in the past few days to show the strength of global opinion in favor of universal education and a world free of child slavery.
Until recently, member governments held two ideas on immigration: they all took the view that ordinary immigration must be restricted or prevented; they all agreed that asylum-seekers be vilified as “bogus” economic migrants and deterred through policies of harassment,
intimidation
and - in some cases - detention.
Corrupt regimes, through
intimidation
and bribery, insisted on the loyalty of the bureaucracy, police, and armed services.
Such behavior is being facilitated by an assault on a final critical institution: the free press, which now seems largely to have been cowed by the government’s overweening power, not to mention its explicit
intimidation
and co-opting of mainstream outlets.
Katherine O'Brien, another journalist, detailed her own
intimidation
by a self-identified Federal agent, and the co-founder of Occupy London, Kai Wargalla, produced a memo from the London Police categorizing her group as “terrorists.”
Rattled, leading politicians from all the parties met in Abuja, the capital, and promised to eschew violence and
intimidation
during the elections--an encouraging sign that the political class is keen not to repeat the coup-inciting mistakes of the past.
As is true elsewhere, trust among Asian countries is crucial for their peace and prosperity, and this can be achieved only through dialogue and adherence to international law, not through force or
intimidation.
A recent UN report states that religious minorities in Iraq “have become the regular victims of discrimination, harassment, and, at times, persecution, with incidents ranging from
intimidation
to murder,” and that “members of the Christian minority appear to be particularly targeted.”
Lee’s government, while still allowing elections as a token of democratic rule, preferred to crush opposition through
intimidation
and financial punishment: brave men and women who stood up to him were bankrupted in ruinously expensive lawsuits;Lee could generally rely on a compliant judiciary.
We can only hope that they are allowed to express their preferences in an environment free of fraud, violence, and
intimidation
– all the more so because the conduct of the DRC election (and the world’s response to it) will have a profound influence elsewhere in Africa.
Already weak and inefficient, prone to corruption, politicisation, lack of co-ordination between departments, and outright
intimidation
of its officials, judicial systems across the isthmus have been an easy target for organised crime.
When media outlets aren’t owned – and tamed – by the authorities or people close to them, they still face censorship, intimidation, tax audits, and occasionally assassination of their journalists and editors.
But the organization’s secrecy, its
intimidation
of the rivals to those who run it, and its reliance on favors, bribes, and called debts do show disturbing parallels to the world of organized crime.
Around the world, oligarchs are buying up media outlets to promote their interests and increase their influence, while journalists who report on issues like discrimination and corruption are met with intimidation, violence, and murder.
But both men, on finding themselves in positions of authority, ruled from their default positions: Bush as an evangelical convinced that God was on America’s side, and Putin as a KGB graduate convinced that all power comes from
intimidation
and threats.
But, despite changed conditions, they respond with the same old methods – suppression, intimidation, and misinformation.
The continuation of pressure, arm-twisting, intimidation, and measures aimed at cutting off Iranians’ access to a whole range of necessities – from technology to medicines and foodstuffs – can only poison the atmosphere and undermine the conditions needed to make progress.
However, central government authorities have done little to halt
intimidation
of Linyi’s villagers.
The focus on the abducted girls reminds us that a new civil-rights struggle is underway, with millions of girls around the world resisting the terror, murder, rape, and
intimidation
that denies them basic rights, including the right to an education.
Dissenters in the media and the universities have faced
intimidation.
Those who do not engage in criminal activity should not face arrest, imprisonment, or any other form of harassment or
intimidation
for doing their job.
For years, Iraq has only known the brutal laws of force and
intimidation.
While the EU’s vision of “wider Europe” relies on soft power, economic integration, and long-term institution building, Putin’s “wider Russia” policy depends on
intimidation
and violence.
The NGO Taskforce against Torture has documented over 500 cases of torture and
intimidation
by radical Islamists, who also have murdered supporters of the Communist Party, such as Abdul Kayyam Badshah.
The so-called Leagues for the Protection of the Revolution have intensified their attacks on liberal parties and civil-society groups that dare to criticize Ennahda or the government, trying to muzzle them through bullying and
intimidation.
Despite the obstacles that Israeli peace activists face – including
intimidation
and violence by right-wing nationalists – their movement has persevered.
Civil society groups report the arrests of opposition electoral candidates, the manipulation of food supplies for political purposes, and violent incidents of voter
intimidation.
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