| 单词 | secret police |
| 例句 | On her face was the panicked look she had worn ever since they had arrived in New York three months ago after a narrow escape from the secret police. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Haitians had been hopeful after Baby Doc Duvalier and his secret police had been chased from power, yet the military leaders of the new junta were even more brutal. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They would pray together about other things, but also that the secret police wouldn’t kick the doors down at any moment and arrest all of them while they prayed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Before long, John Brown was invited to join the Klavaliers, the Klan’s secret police and “flog squad.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I imagined the secret police of America would strap him to a lie detector and say, “Have you now, or ever before, played tag, freeze tag, blob tag, or oonch neech with Iranians?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And even if they could, we couldn’t because the secret police would have stopped it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When the secret police conducted raids, they always made a point of tearing things up, ruining furniture, wrecking stuff. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Nobody ever ever speaks about what happened to my mom when the secret police took her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the old country, any whisper of a challenge to authority could bring the secret police in their black V.W.’s. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Nazi secret police, something else it makes me sick to think about. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z However you sneaked out of that theater and spied and made me a liar to the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The guards and the secret police would be searching each room. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z And just to make sure Kurchatov and his team understood what was at stake, Stalin placed his head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria, in charge of the bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Back home, he had been tailed by the secret police for months and the family had only narrowly escaped capture their last day on the Island. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Werfel thought about what waited for him once Spurge left: the fury of the du Burghs and the hidden malice of the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z This is what Stalin’s dreaded head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria, suspected. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention that the shah had a secret police force called SAVAK, which had a reputation for torturing and executing anyone who opposed the monarchy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Lamphere's team soon turned up a document from the Gestapo—the Nazi secret police—that had been captured during the war and had fallen into the hands of the FBI. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The secret police would report that he was not just a scholar of elf-goblin relations—he was a secret agent of the elves, a traitor against his own people. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He couldn’t turn him in to the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The secret police would not be happy that he had lost his elf. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “The flies are awful secret police that tear us as if we were carrion,” Hal tells her. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Sitting around dreaming while the secret police hunted you down! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet secret police had no business at our house. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The secret police wanted Shostakovich to answer questions about his friendship with Marshal Tukhachevsky, formerly head of the Red Army, who was being set up for a show trial. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Of course they will. For this mission, I am an employee of the Order of the Clean Hand, our secret police. They are very powerful. They’re the ones who asked me to come here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z One evening, without warning, two members of the Gestapo—the German secret police—burst through the front door of our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z If the Russian secret police knew what I was about to do..., she thought, checking the hallway to see if she had been followed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Not the secret police trying to murder us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Crowded into the bunker were other top Soviet physicists, along with the head of Stalin’s secret police, Lavrenti Beria. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Norway, Hitler’s secret police force, the Gestapo, got Haukelid’s name and stormed his family’s house. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They say I almost got Papi killed on account of I was so mean to one of the secret police who came looking for him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z You can hear them sometimes, the American secret police, the CIA, tapping into our calls to listen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Wherever Farmer walked in the city he felt the presence of the tontons macoutes, Baby Doc’s infamous secret police, who hid behind dark glasses and seemed to shadow foreign visitors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And Werfel wondered whether this was a trick by the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Hitler’s secret police, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, hounded Catholic priests, nuns, and other church officials, instructing priests what to say in their sermons and classrooms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the little gray man from the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z At that young age, George joined the Dutch underground resistance movement as a courier, learning to dodge the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the secret police guards. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The secret police of the Supreme Leader of the new government. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But for the person who thinks, “At the end of this year, I’m going somewhere to be free, a place without secret police, free to believe whatever I want and teach my children.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z RANKIN: That is the Russian Communist secret police? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I only remember where it said the people who had been working for Duvalier, the thieves and thugs and secret police, all those Macoutes, could not be in the government anymore. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For Clara, Pavel’s necktie and the coffee, sugar, cigarettes and flowers he brings her — along with perfume that “smells like secret police” — dictate her ability to persist in Ceausescu’s totalitarian world. ‘The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,’ by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Others fear his presence will attract unwanted attention from the pervasive mukhabarat, or secret police. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Stalin relied on culture, along with the secret police and prison camps, to enforce his rule. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Its operator was almost always recruited by the N.K.V.D., the Russian secret police and a forerunner of the K.G.B., according to a description of the item. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z For this crime he was hounded by the secret police. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Just after sunrise on a March morning in 1982, the secret police pounded on the door of Helmuth Meissner, a Dresden art collector known for his refined taste. Stasi Art Seizure Leads to Court Case Involving New Yorkers 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He went to the city of Daraa, and found most residents unwilling to speak with him because they saw secret police agents nearby. Walters said Syrian trip frightened her 2011-12-08T02:46:04Z Adolf Hitler's elite killers, the SS, the Gestapo secret police and the Reich Main Security Office ran their central operations from the site, making it the main cog in the Nazi regime. Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z At the beginning of the occupation the résistants distributed leaflets, and were easy prey for the Gestapo, the German secret police. One of the Men Who ‘Set Europe Ablaze’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Orwell’s friends died, then disappeared — the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, built a special crematorium in Barcelona to dispose of the bodies. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Audiences on this Saturday night were cheering for "Beyond the Horizon," which remembers the collective pain of the Berlin Wall and the harsh reign of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi. 'Beyond the Horizon' healing wounds of a divided Germany with pop rock 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Researchers undertake the massive task of recreating millions of torn-up records that the East German secret police hoped to destroy. Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z She had no alternative, she explained: working for the secret police was the price of life. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II is an unlikely candidate for the Disney-princess treatment—after all, she was brutally slaughtered by the Bolshevik secret police in 1918, when she was seventeen years old. Not Exactly Golden Tickets: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Anastasia” on Broadway 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Lawan said that blast happened around noon, targeting the headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in the area. Attacks on Nigerian churches kill at least 25 2011-12-25T13:28:00Z The scene seems innocent enough — just two men gossiping about a new colleague — but that’s only because it has yet to be revealed that Klaus works for the Stasi, the East German secret police. Movie Review: ‘Barbara,’ Directed by Christian Petzold 2012-12-20T21:52:52Z There's a dictator, secret police, and people disappear all the time – and every so often there's a revolution. The Love and Death of Caterina by Andrew Nicoll ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:07Z A jogger rushed past armed men playing members of the show’s secret police force and yelled to her friends, “Did you not take a picture of me with the Eyes?” The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z In the weeks after arriving in their new home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in November 1989, she was still terrified, mistaking Jehovah's Witnesses and peeping toms for the Romanian secret police. 'It felt like he sacrificed us' 2012-06-15T23:05:05Z The search for the author of the “Protocols” eventually takes Holmes, Watson and Walling on a railway journey into czarist Russia, the land of pogroms and secret police. Review | Sherlock Holmes can never die. New books about the great sleuth are making sure of it. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But now he regularly unlocks his old cell door to show tourists what life was like in a jail run by the Stasi secret police. The spy who loved me? West German recalls Stasi manipulation, imprisonment 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z I started to imagine that the former secret police, and then the Nazis, were stalking me. Experience: I didn’t know I was being doped 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z There, his secret police, known as the PIDE, dealt mercilessly with opponents of his regime. Portugal hopes to preserve memory of fascist era with fortress museum 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z There, in between hospital rounds and harassment from the secret police, she waits and she burns. Movie Review: ‘Barbara,’ Directed by Christian Petzold 2012-12-20T21:52:52Z Stalin supposedly called Boris Pasternak a “cloud dweller,” ordering the secret police to spare the poet. Pasternak’s Muse: The Real-Life Inspiration for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Interrogations, jail time, and pressure from the secret police to become an informant on the local punk scene characterized day-to-day life. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z I’d heard about his infamous Mukhabarat, commonly called the Syrian secret police, which tracked its citizens and routinely accused foreigners of being spies. The crime of being Armenian: Sick, dehydrated, I was following my grandfather’s path through Syria as he fled the Turks. How must he have suffered? 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Starting in the 1960s, the Stasi, the East German secret police, recruited many of the grown-up progeny as spies, sending them to Norway to be reunited with unsuspecting families. ‘Two Lives’: A woman’s secret past threatens her happy home 2014-03-20T21:36:13Z “The reality is that Poland under communism was not divided between heroes from the underground and secret police, but by everyday people trying to live their lives under horrible circumstances.” Polish Film's Amoral New Wave 2010-06-14T12:30:00Z Early in his career, he composed a foundational text for the secret police, a guide to psychological torment called “Manual for Demoralization and Disintegration Procedures.” Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt said a totalitarian state uses the secret police as the “executors and guardians of its domestic experiment in constantly transforming reality into fiction.” Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The book is rife with secret police assassinations, poverty, imprisonment, passion and, finally, a plane hijacking. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Reading her file, she realized she had been fortunate to leave the country in November 1988, shortly after the secret police had taken steps that might have led to her arrest. Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Before the Velvet Revolution, his father had been a member of the Communist Party’s secret police. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by CS Lewis Wolves are the natural allies of the evil White Witch, who recruits the biggest and fiercest wolf, Maugrim, as her chief of secret police. Ten of the best wolves in literature 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z It’s the Internet moniker he uses for his work as a hacker, protecting his clients from censors and the secret police. Books of The Times: ‘Alif the Unseen’ by G. Willow Wilson 2012-06-24T18:21:35Z When the poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested by the Soviet secret police in the 1930s, he was taken to the notorious Lubyanka prison for interrogation. Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The film gains a point for suggesting that Metternich had his secret police spy on Beethoven, which is true. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z Dictators, prisons, secret police, media control, riots, getting rid of `heretics' ... fear, evasion, challenging lies, overcoming fear, resistance, overthrowing tyranny ... China's airing of 'V for Vendetta' stuns viewers 2012-12-20T06:43:09Z “Kawasaki’s Rose,” a Panorama entry by the Czech director Jan Hrebejk, also considers a complex piece of history — collaboration with the Communist secret police — within the confines of a family melodrama. Berlin Takes Film Fest, and Fringe, in Stride 2010-02-17T22:45:00Z The first is Ernst Jürgen, who uses his old contacts from the Stasi, the East German secret police, to locate some pieces of Martin's identikit. Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken 2011-02-19T02:45:00Z Namely: the need to protect their families and social networks, whose possible infiltration by the secret police always had to be assumed. Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z For years, only a simple sign indicated the location of what was once the Nazi secret police headquarters in Berlin. Berlin's 'Terror' Exhibition Gets New Home 2010-04-13T19:00:00Z In the two years after the war, Communists took over the government under the eyes of the Red Army and the Soviet secret police, the N.K.V.D. 'Ida,' by Pawel Pawlikowski: A Film Masterpiece 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The following year, he was detained by the PIDE, the Portuguese secret police, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. Malangatana Ngwenya obituary 2011-01-17T18:54:55Z The first challenge was sorting out the plot, a topsy-turvy tale of love, betrayal and politics that involves the secret police, an endless stream of letters and telegrams and a poison-filled necklace. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z He is an oprichnik, a member of a retinue that serves the czar as kind of secret police force. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Before he scuttled into the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid facing sexual molestation charges, Assange handed secret police forces from Ethiopia to Belarus the names of dissidents who had spoken to the US State Department. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z Scores of new books and films portray the era in glowing colors, and vintage secret police uniforms are on sale. Illuminating the Dark World of the Soviet Gulag, in Photos and Text 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Privacy Etsy's social media DIY-saster When we used to think about dystopian Big Brother scenarios, the horror stemmed from an invasion of our personal lives by an all-seeing, all-knowing secret police. Etsy's social media DIY-saster 2011-03-15T18:57:00Z And of course Narnia is a country at war, with a wolverine secret police force, and a resistance movement making moonlit flits across the snowy landscape. Season's Readings: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis 2010-12-10T10:47:00Z He was furious about the decision, saying his prickly dealings with the Philharmonic reminded him of his earlier experiences with the East German secret police. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z In January 1921, he was shot in his sleep by the Soviet secret police. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Later in his exile he moved to the nearby house on the Avenida Rio Churubusco, where he was assassinated by an agent of Stalin’s secret police, and which is now also a museum. Chasing Spirits: Mexico City’s House Museums 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z One resident reported limited damage to the facade of the nearby Palestine Branch Military Intelligence centre, one of the most feared of more than 20 Syrian secret police agencies. Syria suicide bombers kill 55, truce in tatters 2012-05-10T12:14:02Z To begin with Moura denied everything, but then she told Wells she had been planted on him by the secret police – just as she had been planted on Gorky. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The narrator of this Chilean novel is haunted by a dark episode in her country’s past: In 1984, a torturer for the secret police exposed the sordid workings of the Pinochet regime. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “There’s an Eye in your house,” Ofglen warns when they part ways, referring to a member of the secret police. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Series Premiere Recap: Welcome to Gilead 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Years after his mother’s death, Harry asked to see the secret police files related to the crash. 11 Takeaways From Prince Harry’s Memoir, ‘Spare’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Rebecca’s life takes an early gut punch when she learns that her husband, Hans, is a member of the East Germans secret police and married her only to spy on her family. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Or more familiarly: the K.G.B., the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency and secret police. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z For at least one colleague of mine, this engenders thoughts of secret police. The Getaway: Speedy Airport Security: Should You Apply? 2012-10-03T15:51:40Z Romanians whose lives were invaded and often ruined by the secret police, she writes, “can be utterly indignant about aspects of their society in a way I feel I can’t.” Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Gepopo, the chief of the secret police, wields her icy coloratura soprano like a stiletto. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z The son of a low-ranking officer in the secret police, he was born in 1943 and grew up in the town of Kharkov yearning to be famous. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Limonov’ by Emmanuel Carrère The people of Belarus carry the scars delivered by life and by the secret police all over their bodies. Minsk 2011 ? review 2011-08-24T17:41:57Z After the rally - during which thousands of heavily armed secret police descended on the crowd - the snow-filled streets were stained with blood. Free expression 2011-04-21T12:16:07Z Though the song might have been censored by Mubarak's secret police in earlier times, the group says, inside the confines of Tahrir Square it was rapped with impunity. Egypt: First the government, next the arts? 2011-02-14T02:35:00Z With help, she evaded the secret police, made contact with the embassy, and applied for refugee status. 'It felt like he sacrificed us' 2012-06-15T23:05:05Z After he was caught by the East German secret police, Topf’s father escaped with his wife to Ludwigshafen, then in West Germany, where they founded a laundry. He Knows the Stars’ Dirty Laundry. Because He Washes It. 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z "Every time a movie shows skyscrapers in Shanghai instead of secret police arresting people, China has scored another propaganda victory." Be nice to China: Hollywood risks 'artistic surrender' in effort to please 2013-05-30T14:40:50Z The visit was a mistake: The jail’s cellars had been repurposed by the Soviet secret police to torture and execute suspected Ukrainian nationalists. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Reynolds plays Hal Jordan, a cocky but gifted fighter pilot who is the newest recruit to the Green Lantern Corps, a type of secret police for the universe. Storming the Box Office in His Jammies 2011-06-11T02:12:16Z The former swing their six-strings while the secret police, sporting trench coats and scowls, spin their rifles. 'Beyond the Horizon' healing wounds of a divided Germany with pop rock 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z But the odds were indeed heavy, as the frequent enforcer of them was the Stasi, the secret police widely and justifiably feared at every level of East German society. Book review: ‘Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature,’ by Robert Darnton For readers in the Soviet Union, where Hemingway was highly popular, he was no doubt waiting for Stalin's secret police. In the Fog – review 2013-04-27T23:07:06Z That experience also brought him to the attention of the secret police, since the troupe’s repertory included works by Brecht and Arthur Miller. ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z Mr. Homsi tries to reassure Mr. Saleh that he was right to flee, saying an older man would break if arrested by jihadists or the secret police, especially a man so “pure inside.” In ‘Our Terrible Country,’ Mohammad Ali Atassi Explores the Syrian Revolt 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z During that time, two people she knew in Romania revealed to her that they had been asked to file reports on her with the Romanian secret police. Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The secret police, the notorious Securitate, undertook mass surveillance, quashed public dissent and committed human rights abuses. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z After deliberations involving Stalin and the head of the secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, who had organised the funeral, it had been decided to embalm Lenin rather than bury or cremate the body. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z Starting in the 1960s, the Stasi, the East German secret police, recruited many of the grown-up progeny in East Germany as spies, sending them to Norway to be reunited with unsuspecting families. Movie Review: In ‘Two Lives,’ a War Legacy Threatens a Norwegian Family 2014-02-28T00:16:38Z Supported by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the exhibition details, among other things, secret police operations against Prague’s Jewish community. In Transit Blog: Prague Synagogue Hosts Show on the City's Jewish Community 2011-10-04T10:00:14Z Western journalists were also used to help cover up the massacre of thousands of Polish military officers by Soviet secret police in the Katyn forest in western Russia. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z What’s more, Salazar and his secret police looked the other way when Gestapo agents kidnapped German exiles off Lisbon streets, violating Portugal’s neutrality. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Dictators, prisons, secret police, media control, riots, getting rid of 'heretics' ... fear, evasion, challenging lies, overcoming fear, resistance, overthrowing tyranny ... China anti-censorship hopes rise after state TV airs V for Vendetta 2012-12-20T08:43:16Z The cellos and basses played with paranoid intensity: they restated the initial theme as if it had just been woken up in the middle of the night by the secret police hammering at the door. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Litton | Classical review 2010-03-24T22:35:00Z Unlike many Romanians who have retrieved their secret police files, Verdery has chosen not to publicly “out” her informers and case officers, protecting their identities with pseudonyms and redactions. Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z "The secret police are still hassling them, and we're just crossing our fingers that they get out in one piece again," Russell said. Theater festivals fire up a cold New York 2013-01-05T23:37:24Z Trump’s movement flourishes without white hoods and burning crosses, without jackboots, gangs of thugs, insignias, patriotic anthems, without secret police or any state power at all. The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z His father had served in the secret police, and the boy was brought up dreaming of becoming a secret agent — which is what he became right out of college. ArtsBeat: Masha Gessen Talks About the Reign of Vladimir Putin 2012-03-07T18:52:16Z Sasha’s mildly dissident parents are seized by Stalin’s secret police and sent to the gulag. Delusion chronicle 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z This is a not a fun recommendation, but go to Hohenschönhausen prison, where the East German secret police interrogated dissidents, many of them writers. Read Your Way Through Berlin 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Thugs we think are Mubarak secret police threatening journalists. Journalists detail on Twitter media attacks in Egypt 2011-02-04T03:26:43Z It is perhaps significant that in Sleeper the Orgasmatron – a machine in which the Woody Allen character attempts to hide from the secret police – is the product of an authoritarian regime. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z He was hounded by the secret police, spent the Christmas of 1960 in jail, and was deported back to Britain in 1961. Tom Sharpe, Wilt novelist, dies aged 85 2013-06-06T09:45:25Z Most of Ms. Siegel’s formal conceits — like conducting interviews using the antiquated recording equipment favored by the Stasi, the East German secret police — are well within the range of current commercial documentary practice. | 'DDR/DDR': Surveillance Culture of the East German Secret Police 2010-05-07T04:05:00Z Rounded up by the secret police, he died in a prison hospital in 1942. The Old Woman; Macbeth; Bank on It – review 2013-07-06T23:07:05Z The secret police began tailing the long-haired to school. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z However, her feelings about the past were transformed again when she decided to call up her secret police files, now accessible in Romania's state archives. 'It felt like he sacrificed us' 2012-06-15T23:05:05Z And while it depicts lovers literally walled-off by Israel's West Bank barrier, and a hero brutalized by Israeli secret police, the $2 million drama was filmed mostly in Nazareth, northern Israel, without hindrance. Palestine's tragic Oscar hopeful tests identity, ideas 2014-01-28T13:07:17Z And, while this may be the "true story" of the secret police, it's almost definitely not the whole story. Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police Paul Lewis and Rob Evans – review 2013-06-29T13:00:00Z After a performance outside Prague, Mr. Topol underwent the first of several interrogations by the Czechoslovak secret police over his rebellious lyrics. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z So at age 13, Park and her mother crossed illegally into China — and immediately into the hands of human traffickers who were as scary as the North Korean secret police. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z In the TV series, the character Hamm plays is addicted to morphine and under investigation by the Soviet secret police. 'Mad Men' star Hamm ditches suave for macabre in 'Young Doctor' 2013-10-01T17:30:14Z “When the StB — the secret police — wanted to hear you, they placed bugs in the kitchens. That’s why we call it Kitchen Culture. It’s interesting, but think of provincialism, of isolation.” At the Prague Marathon, History Is a Spectator 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z During the 1970s he was invited to Iran, then under the Shah, when dissidents were being hanged naked or toasted on racks by the hated secret police. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z After participating in demonstrations and filming the protests and the government’s crackdown, he was arrested and tortured by Assad’s secret police. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Wajda seems to view the conversations with secret police not as a mistake, but as the only way Walesa could make his views known the authorities. Andrzej Wajda film will shine new light on Lech Walesa 2011-04-04T06:00:11Z In an era when the SAVAK, the shah’s secret police, spied on, arrested, tortured and killed his political opponents, she said: “I lived my life regularly. I didn’t worry about talking on the phone.” Hired by the Empress of Art at Tehran’s Hidden Museum 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z It was left to Carmen and her grandmother to face the Securitate, the secret police, who interrogated them, and turned their home upside down in an attempt to discover the extent of Ion's treachery. 'It felt like he sacrificed us' 2012-06-15T23:05:05Z Birmingham Central Library was a place where books were burned, not read; the National Theatre a nuclear power station; the British Library looked like a secret police academy. Prince Charles is not a dabbler – he's deeply committed. But he's naive 2013-05-02T14:30:02Z They put the Shah on the throne, backed by his vicious secret police force, Savak, which the CIA helped create. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z Ms Dawisha’s book describes the fusion between the secret police, the mafia and the oligarchs with tentacles that stretch into almost every aspect of life in Russia and beyond. Band of brothers 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Young people fell in love in the dark: “Wrapped in a magic cloak of invisibility, you can do what you like without worrying about the prying eyes of parents, neighbors or secret police.” ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z These gatherings soon attracted the attention of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z Lukashenko rules Belarus with the help of the KGB or secret police, a remnant of Soviet era repression that is still alive and well. Free expression 2011-04-21T12:16:07Z There is the use of analog technology such as pay phones and dial-up modems, all religion is banned, the secret police grab people off the street and put them in vans labeled "Agriculture Department." "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z When he starts English classes, they are infiltrated by the secret police. Love story 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Late that year and into the next, the German Gestapo and the Soviet secret police, the N.K.V.D., held a series of conferences to coordinate their occupations. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Police cars and militia jeeps patrolled Mezze while secret police agents spread out on foot, stopping men at random and checking their identification cards, they said. Syrian security forces clamp down on Damascus 2012-02-19T19:17:00Z Khosrou lives in Oklahoma, having fled Iran with his sister and his mother, whom the secret police threatened for practicing Christianity. From Iran to America, One Epic Tale at a Time 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z The story is about a prisoner who knows he must leave Syria when a captain of the secret police brings the man’s daughter to the jail. Review: In ‘Oh My Sweet Land,’ Dinner Is Served. Don’t Come Hungry. 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z One opposing candidate found himself in the custody of the secret police. Belarus Free Theatre finds safe refuge in Chicago 2011-01-20T18:44:20Z They are led by members of the Owsla, a secret police organisation made up of the strongest and the most intelligent of the rabbits. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z When she first read her file and discovered that many of her Romanian friends were working with the secret police, she felt betrayed. Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Trying to perform a simple task puts him at odds with the secret police, ambiguous American officials and a Cuban beauty, Amaryll Cruz, who is as enigmatic as the island nation. 'Havana Requiem' is a legal thriller with spice 2012-05-08T13:50:08Z Many did not survive: the Soviet secret police shot tens of thousands of prisoners of war captured during their invasion, including more than 14,000 Polish officers in the forest of Katyn. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z I was stalked by the Stasi — the East German secret police — here. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain Iran’s notorious secret police, it seems, cannot police all of its country’s secrets. Iranian characters struggle to be themselves in ‘A Nearby Country Called Love’ 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z A former member of communist East Germany's Stasi secret police has been charged with murder, for allegedly killing a man who had been let through the Berlin Wall in 1974. Former Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin Wall murder 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z United Front agents also work with the Chinese secret police in the Ministry of State Security. China is stepping up disinformation use as propaganda tool, State Department says 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Protests have been held in cities across southern Nigeria, with his fans wanting to know how he died - prompting the Lagos state governor to open an inquiry involving the country's secret police. MohBad mourners teargassed at Nigeria's Lekki toll gate after Lagos concert 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z As Lenin's and then Stalin's secret police chief from 1917 until his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky led the campaign of intimidation, arrests, violence and executions which became known as the "Red Terror". 'Iron Felix' rises again over Russia's spy service in Moscow 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z But many military officers and ex-members of his secret police were convicted of torture, kidnapping and assassination. A divided Chile marks 50 years since Pinochet's bloody military coup 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z “We completely reject this whole notion of secret police,” Khan said. Judge says 'prior restraint' to remove published photos of LAPD officers is justified 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z In 2018, Putin's officials "shut down a regional museum of Gulag history in a bid to whitewash the crimes of the Soviet secret police," according to its founder. MAGA longs to impeach Joe Biden — and un-impeach Donald Trump. It won't work 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Then in dramatic scenes outside the court, secret police officers beat up prison officials who were preparing to take the banker into custody until his bail was settled. Godwin Emefiele's downfall: How Nigeria's bank boss ended up in court 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The secret police had filed two counts of illegal possession of a firearm and live ammunition against Emefiele. Nigeria’s suspended Central Bank governor appears in court more than a month after his arrest 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Emefiele was then taken into custody and has been detained since, prompting him to sue the secret police recently on the grounds of illegal detention and a breach of his human rights. Suspended Nigeria central bank governor charged after weeks in detention 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z What followed were secret police raids, gulags, mass torture, extrajudicial killings and public executions. Dear Fremont: We need to talk about Lenin and your statue of the genocidal tyrant | David Volodzko 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z She donned full Islamic dress to report undercover from Iran and once had to dodge out the back door of a shop in Zimbabwe to escape the attentions of Robert Mugabe's secret police. Obituary: Ann Leslie 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z From spy balloons to secret police stations and dissidents on the run, Panorama investigates China's global surveillance operation. The tech flaw that lets hackers control surveillance cameras 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The detention prompted criticisms of the secret police and a legal tussle between the governor and the agency. Nigeria’s suspended Central Bank governor appears in court more than a month after his arrest 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The secret police said it would ensure professionalism, justice and fairness in handling the matter. Suspended Nigeria central bank governor charged after weeks in detention 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z From spy balloons to secret police stations and dissidents on the run, Panorama investigates China's global surveillance operation. New images show Chinese spy balloons over Asia 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z He complained the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” - the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and communist-era East Germany. Canada suspends work with Chinese-founded development bank while it investigates complaints 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “It was an important time in his life,” said Douglas Selvage, a historian who works at the main Berlin archive of the Stasi, the onetime East German secret police. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Emefiele’s appearance in court was his first in public since June 10, when he was detained by Nigeria’s secret police. Nigeria’s suspended Central Bank governor appears in court more than a month after his arrest 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z He complained that the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” -— the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist-era East Germany, respectively. Canadian quits Chinese-founded development bank, complains ‘Communist Party hacks’ dominate it 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is in “custody for some investigative reasons,” Nigeria’s secret police said in a statement without providing further details. Nigeria’s central bank chief arrested after being suspended by president 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z “Confessions were ‘beaten out’ of people about things they did not do,” he wrote, comparing the methods to those of the secret police during Josef Stalin’s purges. Shocks, beatings, mock executions: Inside Kherson’s detention centers 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z In recent days, one conservative politician portrayed Mr. Habeck as an East German Stasi, or secret police officer, spying on people’s homes. Ugly Fight Over Climate Bill Exposes Cracks in German Coalition 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z “Confessions were ‘beaten out’ of people about things they did not do,” he wrote, comparing the methods to those of the secret police during Joseph Stalin’s purges. Shocks, Beatings, Mock Executions: Inside Kherson’s Detention Centers 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Chen and Feng’s arrest comes a month after the Justice Department charged two men with establishing a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. US: Chinese agents paid bribes in plot to disrupt anti-communist Falun Gong movement 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The secret police had accused him of terrorism financing and economic crimes, but a judge ruled that it couldn’t provide evidence to support the allegations. Nigeria’s central bank chief arrested after being suspended by president 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z The charges were announced a month after federal agents arrested two New York residents on suspicion of operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown district. US charges two in Beijing-directed targeting of Falun Gong 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z As noted earlier, not only was he a staunch supporter of the Holy Alliance, but he formed the world’s first modern secret police force, The Third Section. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Batista, who was financially supported by the U.S. government, held tight control over the island nation and used secret police to silence his opponents, often by means of torture and murder. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He eliminated the office of chief minister so that he might govern without interference, established a force of secret police, and ordered the execution of thousands of people who he believed disagreed with his polices. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Last month, federal prosecutors alleged that China used a secret police station in New York to track down and harass pro-democracy activists. Biden’s national security adviser meets with Chinese official in first talks since spy balloon 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Wise, 50, told the police they were like the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s feared secret police, the complaint said. Former F.B.I. Agent Charged in Jan. 6 Riot 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The SS had the right to hold anyone indefinitely, without trial, in “protective custody” in a concentration camp, and the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, were merely one part of the SS. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He allowed no dissent, and the secret police spied upon, arrested, and tortured anyone suspected of opposing him. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z For example, a secret police network was established to watch civilian administrators and military officials. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In 1980, his father brought him for the first time behind the Iron Curtain to Hungary, where the secret police “were nervous about Habsburgs coming back.” Hungary’s Habsburg Ambassador to the Pope, With an Offbeat Résumé 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z U.S. federal agents arrested two men in New York City on charges of conspiring to act as agents of China in connection with a secret police outpost in Chinatown. Your Tuesday Briefing 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Despite this effort, and the Austrian secret police, nationalism continued to spread, culminating in a large and self-consciously nationalistic movement seeking German unity. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z With U.S. aid, the Shah had built one of the largest armies in the Middle East and SAVAK, one of the most feared secret police forces. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z According to the complaint, the two men, who are both U.S. citizens, opened the secret police station in January 2022, in office space used by a nonprofit they led. U.S. alleges secret Chinese police post in NYC, online tracking of dissidents 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z U.S. law enforcement officials on Monday arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown, part of a crackdown on Beijing's alleged targeting of U.S.-based dissidents. ASIA China under political, economic scrutiny 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The secret police station was used by Chinese intelligence officials to track down a U.S. citizen who was a pro-democracy activist of Chinese descent living in California, according to the Justice Department. FBI arrests two in connection with secret Chinese ‘police station’ in New York 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Nikolai I was the ultimate reactionary, personally overseeing the police investigation of the Decembrist conspiracy and creating Europe’s first secret police force, The Third Section. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The various German security and secret police agencies were combined to create the Gestapo, which became the main dispatcher of violence and enforcer of order. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z US prosecutors have arrested two men in New York for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood. FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese 'police stations' in New York 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “We don’t need or want a secret police station in our great city.” U.S. brings charges over secret Chinese police outpost in NYC 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Safeguard said China was operating a secret police station in New York and three in Toronto. FBI arrests two in connection with secret Chinese ‘police station’ in New York 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The Iranian Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran as a loyal American client for the next 26 years while suppressing dissent through a brutal secret police force. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z But it gained its notoriety after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when it became a top detention facility for the Soviet secret police. Moscow prison for US reporter was used in Stalin’s purges 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z "This prosecution reveals the Chinese government's flagrant violation of our nation's sovereignty by establishing a secret police station in the middle of New York City," said Breon Pearce, the top prosecutor in Brooklyn. FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese 'police stations' in New York 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Rep. Chris Stewart compared the government’s pressure attempts to East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, which would pressure newspapers to hinder positive coverage of regime skeptics. Weaponization hearing hears evidence of White House, CDC, Fauci censorship 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Ortega “may have the guns and the bully boys and the secret police to do his bidding, but in the end, all dictatorships eventually meet their demise,” Mr. Smith said. Key House voice on human rights prods administration on Nicaragua 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Lafrenz was arrested by the Gestapo secret police in 1943 but managed to hide her true involvement with the group and was sentenced to just one year of imprisonment. Survivor of White Rose group that resisted Nazis dies at 103 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Persecuted by the Nazis and carefully watched by the Communist secret police in the former East Germany, the group struggled for decades to be given equivalent status to Germany’s other religious communities. Germany Mourns ‘Horrific Act’ After Gunman Kills 6 at Jehovah’s Witness Hall 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Those defending the pope question the reliability of information from communist secret police documents. New book on Pope John Paul II stirs up heated debate in Polish politics 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But seemingly the Romanian secret police weren't quite as vigilant the following year, when their side was welcomed back to Britain. Swansea RFC: The historic rugby tour behind the Iron Curtain 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z And in both cases, Russia’s defeat in the war would serve to hasten Putin’s exit and would weaken the army and secret police. Opinion: How long will Russians tolerate Putin's costly war? 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Authoritarian regimes often work in the shadows, using secret police to threaten dissidents, censor the media, prohibit travel or choke off internet access. Opinion | They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons. Many Iranians remember the Shah’s secret police, Savak, and Pahlavi said he condemned what had happened then. Time to ramp up support for Iranian people, former Shah's son says 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, Germany learned that a top director, Gabriele Gast, who worked closely with the chancellery, spied for the Stasi, the East German secret police, for 17 years. A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The situation has created a parallel market for people to illegally sell the new banknotes, the Nigeria secret police said Monday. Nigeria’s push for redesigned currency creates cash shortage 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z In Slovakia, he faces accusations of collaboration with the communist-era secret police, which he denies. Czech ex-PM Babis favorite in presidential vote’s 1st round 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Babis was registered as an informant of the secret police, though he denies that. Czech presidential election pits combative ex-PM against ex-general 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The staged arrest and interrogation of American correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow by Soviet secret police on alleged spy charges have many of the earmarks of my own experience there nine years ago. Robert Toth, L.A. Times reporter falsely accused of spying by KGB in 1977, dies at 93 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z In 1994, he gained access to an archive of the Stasi, the East German secret police, which was deeply involved in the doping program. Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The secret police are no longer hiding behind lampposts. Opinion | In Vietnam, Facebook posts are risky. Just ask these bloggers. 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The neighbor, an older woman, helped with the ruse, telling the secret police they had no reason to suspect him. How an American Survived Hiding From the Russians in Kherson for 8 Months 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The biographer has succeeded in humanizing the public image of the coldhearted secret police chief. Review | A biography that may change your mind about J. Edgar Hoover 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z She told me the horror of the secret police coming to their house and kidnapping my uncle in the middle of the night. Opinion | Jason Miyares: Why I created an Election Integrity Unit in Virginia 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Yuri Dmitriev, the chairman of Memorial’s branch in the northern republic of Karelia, discovered a killing field more than 20 years ago where thousands had perished at the hands of Stalin’s secret police. Memorial’s efforts to bring Russia’s totalitarian past to light have also illuminated current repressions. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The chairman of Memorial’s branch in the northern republic of Karelia discovered a killing field where thousands had perished at the hands of Stalin’s secret police. Founded to shed light on Soviet oppression, Memorial is targeted by Putin. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He fled to another apartment and did not return to the site of the search until after the city’s liberation, lest the secret police return. How an American Survived Hiding From the Russians in Kherson for 8 Months 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z I got to talking with two Algerians working at the restaurant while my taxi driver, as I later discovered, fended off inquiries from the secret police. In Algeria, Veiled From the World, Past and Future Are Shrouded, Too 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Senator Rick Scott of Florida likened the F.B.I. to the Gestapo, the secret police in Nazi Germany, saying “this cannot be our country.” Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The Security Service of Ukraine, the secret police force known by the acronym SBU, posted photographs of the attacked convoy. Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z And he never forgot the stories his grandfather had told him about being tortured by Stalin's secret police. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Pantelei said he was convinced that Stalin did not know of the misdeeds of the secret police, who tortured him. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In Leipzig, hundreds of thousands of East Germans rallied for weekly freedom marches demanding democratic elections, independent labor unions and the dismantling of the secret police. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Others invoked the Nazi secret police, using words like “Gestapo” and “tyrants.” Republicans Signal Worries About Trump and the Midterms 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z He then disposed of political enemies and eliminated dissent through the use of SAVAK, a secret police force trained by the United States. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Some called to “defund” or “destroy” the F.B.I., and others invoked the Nazi secret police, using words like “gestapo” and “tyrants.” Some Republicans Make a More Restrained Case for Defending Trump 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z During one visit with Havel at his summer dacha outside Prague, Mr. Nagler presumed the rooms were bugged by the secret police and suggested they take a walk for privacy. Gerald Nagler, leading human rights activist since Cold War, dies at 92 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr Borges, who was living in exile, dismissed the accusation as a "farce", but Mr Requesens was detained by secret police. Venezuela politician sentenced over drone attack on Maduro 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z To understand Russia today, it is necessary to reach back to Stalin’s Great Terror, when the secret police were called NKVD. Opinion | Dark days again in Russia. For prisoners, an endless carousel of absurdity. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Still, he was constantly interrogated by the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police, and eventually his works were banned — although that didn’t shake Müller’s faith in Hitler. The wild history of the Bavarian castle hosting this week’s G-7 summit 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z In 1974, Savak, the shah of Iran’s feared secret police, summoned her over her involvement with left-wing intellectual groups, her brother said. Haleh Afshar, Who Fought for Rights of Muslim Women, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Only two mines are still working here in Toretsk - formerly called Dzerzhynsk in honour of the founder of the Communist secret police. Ukraine war: Against the thud of artillery, miners struggle on 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The Eureka Committee launched a campaign to demonstrate against government leaders, police and the Federal Security Directorate, the feared secret police. Rosario Ibarra, champion of Mexico’s disappeared, dies at 95 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z He has made a series of provocative statements on social media, including comparing the federal government to Nazi Germany's Gestapo secret police and calling Afghan refugees “alligators” who would assault American women. The golden ticket: Will Trump's endorsement in Ohio race burnish or tarnish his star power? 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z After declining to fund some pet projects of the royal family, Elghanian was detained by the secret police for alleged price-gouging and sent to a provincial city under house arrest for several months. Review | Amid revolution, her Jewish grandfather refused to leave Iran. Why? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z A massive data leak from Russian food delivery service Yandex Food revealed the delivery addresses, phone numbers, names, and delivery instructions belonging to those associated with Russia’s secret police, according to findings from Bellingcat. Data leak from Russian delivery app shows dining habits of the secret police 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The Justice Department last week charged five people working on behalf of China’s secret police for targeting, harassing and spying on Chinese nationals who reside in the United States “for their pro-democracy views.” Top GOP voice on foreign affairs slams plummeting federal espionage indictments 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But members of the opposition group in the Welsh Parliament said they were "worried" it could create a "Stasi culture" in Wales - referring to the old East German secret police. Parents smacking children becomes illegal in Wales 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z In the second case, prosecutors allege that a New York congressional candidate was harassed by a member of the Chinese secret police. Chinese spies plotted to burn an anti-China sculpture, stalked Olympic skater, feds say 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He uses secret police and other enforcers to terrorize any person or group he deems to be the enemy. Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Unsealed files have revealed a plot by five people working on behalf of Chinese secret police to stalk and harass a US military veteran running for Congress, and to spy on an artist. Chinese plot to smear US Congress hopeful unveiled 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged five people with acting on behalf of the Chinese secret police to stalk, spy on and harass U.S. residents critical of Beijing, officials announced Wednesday. Five people charged with acting as Chinese government agents to spy on and harass U.S. residents critical of Beijing 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The three cases unsealed Wednesday detailed separate schemes, each involving people identified by U.S. authorities as agents from China’s Ministry of State Security, a civilian intelligence and secret police unit. Chinese agents charged with spying on critics of Beijing in U.S. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Federal prosecutors also charged Qiming Lin, 59, who works for the Chinese secret police agency, with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment, among other offenses. Chinese spies plotted to burn an anti-China sculpture, stalked Olympic skater, feds say 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history etc. so long as they feel that it is on 'our' side. Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s a voyage where most of us might fear to tread: Inside the mind of a brutal secret police agent during Chile’s military dictatorship. Monstrosity, kooky Christmas, longings and love: The animated shorts of Oscars 2022 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z At one of her hiding places she watched from her window as other Jews were taken out of their homes by Nazi secret police and forced to climb onto wagons. Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron dies at 99 in Berlin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z In a groundbreaking verdict in January, a German court convicted a former Syrian secret police officer of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail. Live: Live updates: NATO chief: Targeting civilians ‘unacceptable’ 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "I'm 30, I haven't seen the worst... the repressions, the secret police," she said. War in Ukraine: The Russians leaving Russia for Finland 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z This brutal action and the terror applied by the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, shocked most Germans into total obedience. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was beaten by Iraqi and Saudi secret police. War is the greatest evil: Russia was baited into this crime — but that's no excuse 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin was by then a lieutenant colonel at the K.G.B.’s Dresden outpost, watching helplessly as protesters ransacked the local headquarters of the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Ukraine Invasion Tests the Ties That Bind Putin and Xi 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z A slew of online reactions mocked Mrs. Greene for confusing the cold Spanish soup to Nazi Germany’s secret police. Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for confusing ‘gazpacho’ with ‘Gestapo’ 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s secret police destroyed this dam to make the river harder for German forces to cross, killing civilians and flooding towns in the process. Wetlands and radioactive soil: How Ukraine’s geography could influence a Russian invasion For example, the secret police arrested many dissidents, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sudan's once notorious secret police are back in action, abducting people who it is feared might never be seen again. Sudan's feared secret police make a comeback 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “They didn’t like that the Russian Czar didn’t recognize their political and moral leadership,” Mr. Patrushev said of the 16th-century tyrant known for his fearsome secret police. The Hard-Line Russian Advisers Who Have Putin’s Ear 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Last week, a German court convicted a former Syrian secret police officer of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of thousands of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago. UK police asked to probe Indian officials’ role in Kashmir 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z He suspects secret police operatives enter his apartment when he’s not there, and he said he has found listening software on his government-provided phone. No escape from Guantánamo Using these secret police, Ivan executed many boyars, their families, and the peasants who worked their lands. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The junta that seized power in October restored the secret police's powers in order to curb the relentless wave of protests that have since swept the country. Sudan's feared secret police make a comeback 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The Rasmussen Reports survey showed that 61% of likely Republican voters believe the FBI is acting as Mr. Biden’s “Gestapo,” a term for the secret police of Nazi Germany. Poll: Majority of Republicans believe FBI is acting as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z After her father was arrested and tortured by the Nazis’ Gestapo secret police for alleged political activity, the family was able to escape to Yugoslavia and later to Italy, APA reported. Austrian Holocaust survivor “Mrs. Gertrude” dies at 94 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z She said officials told her that the names of prosecutors and secret police from decades ago must continue to be kept secret because they were “serving our motherland.” Russian court abolishes country’s most prominent human rights group, Memorial 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z His secret police carefully watched both secondary schools and universities. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z International Memorial unearths and publishes information on past crimes and mass human rights violations, and helps people access secret police files pertaining to their family history. Factbox-Memorial: Moscow shuts down chronicler of Soviet-era crimes 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z He told them history would record that, when the world needed saving, there was one nation without dictators or secret police that answered the call. Opinion | When the world needed saving, the U.S. was there 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The five Syrians pulled from their homes by secret police on the same night last year were not insurgents, spies or suspected of being disloyal to the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. Assad’s tightening grip In hundreds of short cellphone videos, he complains that he is stalked, abused and harassed by members of the public and police – often accusing passersby of being secret police, racists and cult members. Ryan Rogers murder: Suspected killer's apparent YouTube page reveals troubled past 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Often the leader utilizes secret police to crush opposition and create a sense of fear among the people. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Those suspected of involvement include a former officer with East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, and an insurance company’s office in Berlin. German police smash cocaine ring accused of smuggling tons 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z SEOUL, South Korea — Song Chun-son, a duck farmworker, endured 2½ years in a North Korean labor camp and was later coerced to work for its secret police, the Ministry of State Security. She fled North Korea for freedom. Then she was arrested 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Aragvi, at No. 6 Tverskaya, was a favorite of the secret police; government officials; cosmonauts and pilots; stars of theater, movies and ballet; directors; poets; chess masters. Three decades after the Soviet era, this Moscow street echoes what was. And hints where Russia is heading. It’s hard here not to recall Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” about an imaginary city that also made do without kings, wars, slaves or secret police. Opinion | Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Stalin’s secret police used tanks and armored cars to stop riots. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It vigorously opposed Japan’s military aggression before and during World War II, and the Japanese secret police persecuted and imprisoned Communists through the conflict’s end. Japan’s Communists Are Hardly Radical, but Make a Handy Election Target 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z In the court hearing on Tuesday that sent Song to prison, the presiding judge, Kim Mi-kyong, dismissed her appeal, saying that she had helped the North Korean secret police for personal gain as well. She fled North Korea for freedom. Then she was arrested 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z He has repeatedly faced claims that he was an informant for the feared secret police during communism. After the Pandora Papers ensnared the Czech prime minister, voters are having their say. But will they care? 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z A quarter of a million Czechs rallied against him twice in 2019 over his alleged fraud involving EU funds and allegations of his cooperation with the country’s communist-era secret police. Pandora Papers a worry for Czech PM Babis ahead of election 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The secret police arrested and executed millions of so-called traitors. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, Rudolph rigged a secure communications system beneath the tunnel sophisticated enough to evade the East German secret police, the Stasi, who were experts in eavesdropping. Review | A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z During her trial, Song admitted providing a secret police agent named Yon Chol-nam with the telephone number of a North Korean defector in South Korea she had known while working as a broker. She fled North Korea for freedom. Then she was arrested 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Both agencies served as the former president's "secret police" last year. How the myth of 'border security' empowers American fascists 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Within the department, however, multiple sources said they have heard the team referred to as the sheriff’s “secret police.” L.A. County sheriff's unit accused of targeting political enemies 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Soviet secret police herded peasants onto collective farms at the point of a bayonet. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1977, perhaps stricken by conscience, he stopped working for the secret police and even volunteered for Amnesty International. Review | A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Once there, he stays alert for anyone he thinks may be secret police, such as taxi drivers stationed outside bus and railway stations who refuse to take passengers. 'The last battle for Myanmar': Citizens take up arms in bid to topple junta 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z At the start of his trial, Salih Mustafa, 50, pleaded not guilty to charges of war crimes, comparing the court to the Nazi secret police. Ex-rebel denies war crimes as Kosovo tribunal opens first trial 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Many residents have been growing uneasy about Assad’s secret police, who have once more tightened their control and conducted a campaign of arrests has that has sowed widespread fear. Syrian army enters birthplace of uprising under peace deal 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He was captured in 2003 by the CIA and Pakistan’s secret police, then spirited to CIA prisons in Poland and Afghanistan and finally to Guantanamo. They were some of 9/11’s biggest names. Where are they now? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z She looked at him as if he were the secret police. ‘I Helped Destroy People’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z More recently, a German court convicted a former Syrian secret police officer for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. Hamid Nouri: How Sweden arrested a suspected Iranian war criminal 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z “Apparently Mesquite Elementary thinks they can break the law and act like the covid Gestapo,” the man wrote, referencing Nazi Germany’s secret police. An Arizona school ordered a student to quarantine. His dad and 2 others confronted the principal with zip ties. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Oluwaseyi Adetayo, a security expert and former officer of the Nigerian secret police Department of State Services, says the bandits have found it far too lucrative to abduct children. EXPLAINER: Who are the gunmen abducting Nigerian students? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Sergiy Gutsalyuk, the head of the regional branch of Ukraine's National Memory Institute, told AFP that the victims were likely to have been killed by the Soviet secret police unit during the late 1930s. Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukraine 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Habré maintained his hold on power with the aid of a secret police service, the Documentation and Security Directorate, which reported directly to him. Hissène Habré, former leader of Chad convicted of crimes against humanity, dies at 79 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Thousands of political prisoners were held “in horrifying conditions, tortured” and executed there by the shah’s secret police, Human Rights Watch wrote in a 2004 report. Leaked footage shows inmates abused at Iran’s Evin Prison, prompting rare official apology 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z It stands at the back of the national art gallery, near an underground museum detailing the horrors of Hoxha’s secret police, the Sigurimi. Guarding the Last Likeness of a Loathed Dictator? It’s a Thankless Job. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Prosecutors introduced newly obtained records from Serbian secret police archives, which included details about the paramilitary recruits and payments to them. Tribunal Convicts Former Serbian Officials of Crimes in Balkan Wars 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Rivas’s lawyers say she was not an agent of the secret police but instead engaged in menial tasks such as making coffee and collecting laundry. Chilean woman should be extradited for alleged kidnappings under Pinochet, says Australian court 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The trial included the testimony of 90 witnesses, who described the fear induced by Mr. Habré’s secret police and prison apparatus. Hissène Habré, former leader of Chad convicted of crimes against humanity, dies at 79 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The secret police seized doctors’ records and ordered them to keep silent. Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story. 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z The first checkpoint appears just a few minutes’ drive from the headquarters of Mr. Maduro’s secret police. Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z For the Palestinians to deliver, they will need a non-Hamas security force that’s tough enough to maintain order without becoming an oppressive secret police. Opinion | Israel has no coherent strategy for the Palestinians. The U.S. should push for a reset. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Rep. Chris Smith’s first brush with China and the Olympics was in the early 1990s when he met Wei Jingsheng for dinner with Beijing’s secret police sitting a few feet away. Rep. Chris Smith: Winter Olympics in Beijing must be moved to new city 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Karagodin uncovered the real story bit by bit: Stepan was shot by Stalin’s secret police five years earlier on the false charge that he was spying for Japan. He spent years uncovering the Stalin-era execution of his great-grandfather. Lawsuits seek to bury the evidence. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z I was beaten by Saudi military police and later by Saddam Hussein's secret police when I was taken prisoner after the first Gulf War. Don't be fooled by Joe Biden: None of his big proposals will become reality — and he knows it 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z The author published Romanian secret police files in the book detailing the alleged abuse of Romanian gymnasts. Bela Karolyi, former Olympic gymnastics coach, faces abuse accusations in secret police files: report 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z He tried killing Mr. Navalny last summer, dispatching secret police to smear his underwear with a banned chemical agent. Opinion | Poisoning didn’t stop Alexei Navalny. So Putin is trying mass repression. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z In 1933, Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police, the Gestapo, was created. Today in History 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z In 2014, authorities extended the classification of secrets in the archives of the KGB and the NKVD, another Soviet secret police agency, until 2044, saying that their release would “jeopardize Russian security.” He spent years uncovering the Stalin-era execution of his great-grandfather. Lawsuits seek to bury the evidence. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The secret police would follow me or watch me — when I was in parks, in restaurants. Furry Friends 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z After Hitler took power in 1933, he became a zealous Nazi and soon after, a senior figure in the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s feared secret police force. He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z In the video, passed to the BBC, he describes a country gripped by fear where anyone who criticises the government risks arrest by the secret police. Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein 'under house arrest' 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Social media apps are not allowed if China’s secret police cannot read or listen in to every conversation. Opinion | China might be right about America. But what are its leaders so afraid of? 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z The United Nations estimates up to 200,000 people are held in a vast network of gulags run by Stasi-like secret police, many of which are located near mining sites. North Korea enslaving political prisoners to fund weapons programme: South Korea rights group 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Police were pelted with projectiles by some demonstrators and a man was attacked by demonstrators who accused him of being a secret police officer, El Pais newspaper reported. Protesters clash with Spanish police in fresh unrest over jailed rapper 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z In 1936, Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review. Today in History 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z The Myanmar public called her “The Lady,” a sign of respect and knowingly indirect, to avoid attention from the ubiquitous secret police. Deposed Myanmar leader warned of possible army obstruction 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z It took years before Judge Guzmán understood the full extent of the terror that was then unleashed by Pinochet, his secret police and other henchmen. Juan Guzmán Tapia, judge who battled Chilean dictator, dies at 81 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z One man said he had grown up in East Germany and compared us to the Communist secret police: Opinion | This is what it looks like when the mob turns on you 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “There’s more political prisoners. The secret police are as brutal as ever,” Biden said during an October campaign stop in Miami. Tampa-Cuba ties frayed under Trump, Now, it’s Biden’s turn 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z The Russian heroes Putin extols are spies who hack into U.S. agencies and domestic intelligence agents whose main role, like that of Stalin’s secret police, is the repression of dissent. In Russia, tough new laws and stepped-up defiance abroad mark Putin’s shift toward unfettered control 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z “Cuba’s no closer to freedom and democracy today than it was four years ago. “In fact, there are more political prisoners and secret police are more brutal than ever.” Latin American leftists watch warily for change in U.S. 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Other members of Pinochet’s junta, including the chief of his secret police, were arrested. Juan Guzmán Tapia, judge who battled Chilean dictator, dies at 81 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z The corruption included stealing from vulnerable victims - Katherine Kealoha’s own grandmother and uncle - framing the uncle for a crime he didn’t commit, and using members of a secret police unit. Disgraced couple to be sentenced in Hawaii corruption case 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The corruption included stealing from vulnerable victims — Katherine Kealoha’s own grandmother and uncle — framing the uncle for a crime he didn’t commit, and using members of a secret police unit. Disgraced couple to be sentenced in Hawaii corruption case 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Prosecutors said the corruption included stealing from vulnerable victims - Katherine Kealoaha’s own grandmother and uncle - framing the uncle for a crime he didn’t commit, and using members of a secret police unit. Ex-prosecutor writes of drug addiction in sentencing letter 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Prosecutors said the corruption included stealing from vulnerable victims — Katherine Kealoaha’s own grandmother and uncle — framing the uncle for a crime he didn’t commit, and using members of a secret police unit. Ex-prosecutor writes of drug addiction in sentencing letter 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Mátyás Rákosi’s Stalinist regime brought secret police, show trials, murder and the end of free speech; it also helped create the conditions for one of the greatest teams in football history to prosper. Hungary's Golden Squad: the greatest team never to win it all? | John Ashdown 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “What are they gonna do, send the secret police after us?” VMI cadets attack Black students, women on anonymous chat app as furor over racism grows 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Mielke was 82 years old, a veteran of the International Brigades, and had run the notorious secret police for three decades. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z In the process of doing so, protests will likely erupt, giving Trump his first post-election opportunity to order his secret police to gas, shoot and arrest protesters. Let's imagine the unimaginable: A second term for Donald Trump 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In April, two former members of Syria’s secret police went on trial in Germany accused of crimes against humanity over the torture of thousands of opposition protesters. Rights groups ask Germany to probe Syria chemical attacks 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z With the secret police then taking over MTK in Budapest, providing Sebes with the second of his two domestic hothouses, everything was in place. Hungary's Golden Squad: the greatest team never to win it all? | John Ashdown 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “They would be expected to report on the ideological soundness of people around them,” said Selvage, who specializes in the history of the Soviet bloc, including its secret police. From Communist cadre to Coca-Cola rep: An East German story 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The woman later learned North Korean secret police detained her brother. North Korean defector says abuse by South Korean spies broke her trust and her dream 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Professional snipers would have been readily available from the Stasi ranks, East Germany’s recently dissolved secret police. A Perfect Crime: Netflix to examine Germany's answer to JFK assassination 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z When secret police issue threats abroad, they often do so on WeChat. Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Trump and William Barr's de facto secret police are literally disappearing people off the streets of Portland and in other parts of the country where the Democratic Party is in power. Alexander Reid Ross on what the media got wrong about the Portland protests: Everything 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z “Violent extremists were destroying people’s lives for months, 30 people were killed. Democrats rejected Federal assistance every time Trump offered it. Media lied about Trump deploying “secret police,” the tweet continued. Trump going to Kenosha Tuesday 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z There are also concerns that the Hong Kong police are adopting invasive surveillance techniques commonly used by China’s secret police force. With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z He deployed unidentified federal agents against protesters in Portland, Oregon, where his secret police pulled them into unmarked vans, and detained them without charges. Robert Reich: Trump’s "law and order" campaign is a distraction 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z When against all odds she did, the secret police followed. Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z It is exactly the same idea being promoted by the ever divisive, racist Trump and his sycophants using his secret police to generate chaos. Feedback: Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal fact check 'Mrs. America' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Only weeks ago Trump began deploying his own personal secret police force, hoping to enforce his will by suppressing dissent and free speech in Democratic-led cities all over the United States. There was no "Trump derangement syndrome": We were right about him all along 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z In China, putting a camera outside the door of dissidents is a common trick of the secret police. With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Albuquerque's mayor announced: "There's no place for Trump's secret police in our city." Robert Reich: Trump’s "law and order" campaign is a distraction 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z The powerful secret police - still called the KGB - closely monitors dissidents. Europe's longest-serving ruler under fire 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z In a massive violation of the civil and human rights of the American people, Trump's secret police are operating in Portland, Oregon, grabbing protesters off the streets and disappearing them for interrogated. Welcome to Donald Trump's terrordome: But even this may not save him 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Trump's own personal secret police force along with his civilian "watchdogs," may well be used to intimidate Democratic voters on Election Day and beyond. There was no "Trump derangement syndrome": We were right about him all along 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The former New York mayor also took issue with descriptions of the agents as "secret police" by some critics. Giuliani knocks 'pathetic' Portland mayor over handling of riots, defends dispatching federal agents 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The Trump regime is now literally using de facto secret police to detain and "disappear" protesters in Portland. ACLU's David Cole: "If Trump seeks to stay in power after losing the election," we'll be ready 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z But sending uniformed thugs, untrained in riot control as it turns out, into a tumultuous environment without serious rules of engagement and using the tactics of secret police units fails any measure of effectiveness. The battle of Portland is just plain crazy 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z “We cannot have secret police abducting people into unmarked vehicles,” she said. Opinion | In Portland’s So-Called War Zone, It’s the Troops Who Provide the Menace 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Wolf also defended tactics such as tear gas, rubber bullets and having officers sweep people off the street into unmarked vehicles, evoking images of a secret police force. For racial justice protests, US taps tactical border squads 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z “We cannot have secret police abducting people in unmarked vehicles. I can’t believe I have to say that to the President of the United States.” Operation Diligent Valor: Trump showcased federal power in Portland, making a culture war campaign pitch 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Trump announced plans to send more military secret police “into cities that don’t want them, don’t need them, and are actively trying to stop them,” said Meyers. Trevor Noah on Trump: 'Obsessing over a dementia test is the real dementia test' 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It doesn't work as intended and it raises a new set of issues for all sides over whether the president has a secret police force. The battle of Portland is just plain crazy 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Some of those arrested, and one shot with a rubber bullet that fractured his skull, appear in videos to have been acting lawfully when they were attacked by what amount to Trump's secret police. Trump’s stormtroopers crush liberty on the streets of Portland 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z At an online event announcing the suit, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley condemned Trump’s “secret police tactics”, likening the administration to governments in “Turkey, Russia, and the Philippines”. Portland protests: federal agents' actions draws city into a national debate 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z It is entirely plausible that Trump's secret police will also be used to help him steal the presidential election. Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump and the bitter American truth: "We do not have a real democracy" 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “This a democracy, not a dictatorship. We cannot have secret police abducting people in unmarked vehicles. I can’t believe I have to say that to the President of the United States,” she tweeted. 2 standoffs in Oregon show differing views of US response 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z What is it with the Trump administration’s use of “secret police” in Portland, Ore.? This is the stuff of dictatorships and totalitarians. Opinion | The president cracks down unnecessarily on Portland 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, also denounced the federal agents in a press conference on Wednesday and said they are “secret police abducting people.” Oregon lawmaker says Portland protests are ‘not out of control’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But it seemed to many like the U.S. had created a secret police force, and it drew lawsuits as well as more protesters into the streets. Heavily armed US agents on city streets: Can Trump do that? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “If you don’t oppose secret police disappearing people off of American streets because they’re leftists, then you’re not really opposed to secret police — you’re just opposed to it being used against people you like.” Conservatives, libertarians push back on Portland crackdown: ‘Cannot give up liberty for security’ 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The Gestapo was the secret police force used by the Nazi regime. House Majority Whip Clyburn compares federal agents in Portland to Nazi Gestapo police 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Dlamini describes hearings arranged in 1982 in Washington for Congress where supposed “reformed terrorists” – in fact members of a secret police death squad – told of the misdeeds of the ANC and their communist backers. 'A hell of a lot of hurt': writers confront South Africa's apartheid past 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z “We used to think of ‘secret police’ as something abstract,” Nathan Law, a prominent leader of the Hong Kong protests, said in a statement issued by the Hong Kong Democracy Council. Hong Kong Opens Door to China’s Hulking Security State 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen, worked for the British consulate in the territory for almost two years until he fled after he said he was beaten and tortured by China’s secret police. Exclusive: Hong Kong activists discuss 'parliament-in-exile' after China crackdown 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z One of his targets was Oleg Gazmanov, a singer often hired to entertain officials, including Mr. Putin at a celebration honoring secret police officers. The Theatrical Method in Putin’s Vote Madness 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z "With sweeping powers and ill-defined law, the city will turn into a secret police state," said Joshua Wong, a pro-democracy leader. 'Anti-protest' law kicks in as HK marks handover 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The secret police’s former headquarters now houses a court of law and museum on the Soviet occupation that ended in 1991. Lithuania lawmakers vote to remove disputed artificial beach 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The new national security laws could establish a police unit to enforce the new laws, along with placing secret police in Hong Kong. Hong Kong pastors face arrest, extradition to China with new security laws: watchdog 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z China’s ruling Communist Party intends to impose a security law that will create a powerful new secret police. Opinion | China’s Hong Kong policy: One country, one brutal system 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The national security laws could establish a police unit to enforce the new laws, along with placing secret police in Hong Kong. China's legislature passes controversial draft of Hong Kong national security bill 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Since then, he hasn’t lifted a finger to stop the secret police tactics of the FSB, of which he was once the director. Opinion | Christians are being unjustly imprisoned. Where is Bible-toting Trump? 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z President Trump and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, with their dreams of a militarized, anonymous secret police force, exhorted the mayors and governors of the United States to “dominate” protesters in the street. Opinion | D.C.’s mayor spells it out: Black lives matter 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Trump also has moved toward creating a kind of secret police by deploying heavily armed federal security officers in the District without name tags or other identifying insignia. Perspective | Mayor Bowser is besting Trump in tug of war over what ‘law and order’ means in D.C. 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Now, China won’t have to extradite people to the mainland; it will have its own secret police right in Hong Kong. Opinion | China’s Hong Kong policy: One country, one brutal system 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z As Common Dreams reported Saturday, lawmakers, journalists, and activists are growing increasingly concerned about the rapid proliferation of unidentified law enforcement agents in D.C. and elsewhere, with one senator describing them as "American secret police." House Democrats to probe Trump's use of predator drones to surveil protesters 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The wing of the facility housing political prisoners including Hathloul is controlled by the Mabahith, a branch of the Saudi Arabian secret police that handles domestic intelligence. Family fears grow for activists detained in notorious Saudi prison 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z For the next few days, I played golf at Ocean Dunes, the Faldo course in Phan Thiet, in easy view of a solitary observer I imagined to be a member of the secret police. In Search of Tiger Phong - Golf Digest 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z "There is nothing worse than this. It's how the secret police operate in Third World dictatorships," Carlson went on. Tucker rips FBI's conduct in Flynn case: 'How the secret police operate in Third World dictatorships' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the trial of two Syrian men accused of torturing and killing people for their country’s secret police got underway in Koblenz, roughly 75 miles northwest of Frankfurt. German Trial Accuses Iraqi of Genocide in Killing of Yazidi Girl 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Such monitoring is already proving controversial in Germany, where memories of the East German Stasi secret police and its informants are still fresh in the minds of many. Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defences 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z As there were no known Jews in Sudan, a Muslim-majority country, they hid their religion so as to blend in and not get caught by the Sudanese secret police. The holiday village run by spies 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Since Stalin's secret police was quick to arrest everyone who disputed his opinions about anything, Soviet scientists quickly learned to agree. Trump’s dangerous war on science 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The prosecutors said the corruption included stealing from vulnerable victims - Katherine Kealoaha’s own grandmother and uncle - framing the uncle for a crime he didn’t commit, and using members of a secret police unit. Virus spread concerns postpone Hawaii corruption sentencing 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z No longer must the authorities deploy secret police to shadow opposition figures or plant bugs in their phones. The Rise and Fall of M.B.S.’s Digital Henchman 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Albania’s secret police rounded up anyone suspected of not giving proper obeisance to the government and its leaders. Nexhmije Hoxha, widow and unapologetic defender of Albanian dictator, dies at 99 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The Russian authorities threw him in jail for setting fire to the door of the secret police headquarters in Moscow. An Artist Who Aspires to Be ‘a Bone in Everyone’s Throat’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z He stared at you through the numerous eyes of the secret police. How Kenya used satire to tackle Moi's presidency 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Her case represents a growing trend of state hostage-taking, in which secret police pick up innocent people, often dual nationals, and use them as bargaining chips in wider negotiations with a rival state. Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ordeal: a story of British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Or, perhaps, Putin himself no longer had the same omnipotent hold over the country’s investigators and secret police. ‘They will destroy you’: in Putin’s Russia, how far can an artist go? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The end goal is for Trump, Barr, the Republican Party and the conservative movement more generally is to have their own secret police. Trump's authoritarian assault on democracy continues: What lies ahead? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Iran’s secret police claim to have arrested eight people working for the CIA to promote the protests. Trump accelerated Iran crisis by renouncing nuclear deal, imposing sanctions 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Delije, Serbian for “tough boys,” are known for close ties with current Serbia’s ruling nationalist party and the secret police. Montenegro denounces protest attack on its embassy in Serbia 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z They were also determined to exterminate those who didn’t fit the ideological mold, and both relied on the secret police and concentration camps to achieve that purpose. (In)famous Western alliances with the Soviet Union/Russia 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z As many as one in four people were thought to be informers for Ceausescu's secret police in the 1980s. Open wounds of Christmas revolution that ousted dictator 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Heydrich was the leader of Hitler’s Reich Main Security Office, which oversaw the Gestapo, the Nazi’s secret police. Holocaust planner’s grave dug up, Berlin police say 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In May, 2016, he joined Poroshenko and other prominent politicians at a memorial service honoring victims of the Soviet secret police. The Ukrainian Prosecutor Behind Trump’s Impeachment 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z On May 5, 1951, the Liberation Daily of Shanghai reported that Jao was among hundreds of people seized by the secret police on April 27 in raids in Nanjing, Hangzhou, and two other cities. AP honors journalist executed in 1951 by Chinese officials 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z “We’d have to explain to the American people in a very compelling way why they needed a domestic intelligence service, because I think most Americans would be fearful of a secret police,” he said. Special Report: White House veterans helped Gulf monarchy build secret surveillance unit 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Burglars have stolen communist-era medals and jewellery worth thousands of euros from Berlin’s Stasi Museum, located in the former headquarters of the East German secret police. Thieves take medals and jewellery from Berlin's Stasi Museum 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Stalin used these proxies to target the rule of law and empower secret police forces tasked with the violent oppression of the regime’s opponents. Impeachment as a struggle to save democracy — from the pathological cult of Donald Trump 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z He says he was hooded, beaten and chained to a metal frame as Chinese secret police sought information on activists involved in the protests and on Britain’s purported role. Hong Kong protesters seek British support; campus siege ends 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The secret police found evidence that Georg Berger was illegally hoarding butter, eggs, soap and other scarce items that were strictly rationed at the time, according to Gestapo documents. Father’s Nazi Past Overtakes German Business Guru 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z He said he was tortured by secret police in mainland China to glean information about massive anti-government protests roiling Hong Kong. Hong Konger complains to UK about China TV forced confession 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z He was later transferred to the secret police, when he says he was handcuffed, shackled, blindfolded and hooded. Former British consulate worker tells of torture by China over Hong Kong 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z And, as a result of his long interrogation at the hands of the Chinese secret police, the UK now sees him as a security risk. Former UK consulate worker says China tortured him 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z A German newspaper has been forced to launch an investigation into its new owner after it was revealed he had been an informer for the East German secret police, the Stasi. German newspaper investigates new owner over Stasi informer role 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The tribunal heard testimony that Georg Berger had been imprisoned by the Gestapo and escaped being sent to Dachau only because a sympathizer inside the secret police intervened. Father’s Nazi Past Overtakes German Business Guru 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Meetings with fellow dissidents had to be restricted to a few minutes or even seconds and convened on bridges, to foil secret police intervention. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z But in the frantic final days of the regime, the secret police began tearing up files. Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germans still seeking answers 30 years later 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z "The secret police clearly stated that batches after batches of Hong Kong protesters had been caught, delivered and detained in mainland China." Former UK consulate worker says China tortured him 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z He held dissident meetings in his home and was harassed by the Stasi, East Germany’s fearsome secret police, for years. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Photos: An Accident of History That Changed The World 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Another had a sister who worked for DINA, the feared secret police. ‘Chile Woke Up’: Dictatorship’s Legacy of Inequality Triggers Mass Protests 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z “Two secret police guys showed up and sat in the corridor, demanding that the doctor report everything to do with Mr Urban’s health,’ he said. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z In those times, it didn’t take much for Special Branch, the secret police, to turn a neighbor into an informer. Water, Water Everywhere Quenched Myanmar’s Thirst. Then the Clay Pots Disappeared. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z President Harry Truman initially opposed the creation of the CIA in 1945 because he feared creating an “American Gestapo,” a secret police force. Impeachment frenzy in Washington sets Trump off against the CIA 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Extracts from Kim Philby’s official confession to the UK’s security services in which he likens joining the Soviet secret police to signing up to the army, have been made public for the first time. Confession of British spy for the Soviets made public for first time 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In Chukotka, Soviet bureaucrats, secret police, engineers, geologists, teachers, doctors, and veterinarians—foreigners were now a quarter of the peninsula’s population—could not expect shipments of beef, pork, and sausage to continue. When the Soviet Union Freed the Arctic from Capitalist Slavery 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Kim hadn’t gone several yards before his car was stopped again by an officer from the Ministry of State Security, the North’s infamous secret police. Missionary, Businessman, Prisoner, Spy: An American’s Odyssey in North Korea 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But the assumptions that underlay the struggles for rights and freedoms in the 20th century – between citizens armed with truth and information and regimes with their censors and secret police – have been turned upside down. The disinformation age: a revolution in propaganda 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Omolara Oriye, a human rights and advocacy director at the Initiative for Equal Rights, was one of those who protested outside the church’s main Abuja branch, defying members of the secret police on standby. Nigeria's 'Gucci Pastor' takes leave of absence over rape claims 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But Zimbabwe, under President Mugabe, used diamond exports to fund its repressive secret police. Game of Stones: Tracking conflict diamonds with lasers 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Classified documents, obtained by the podcast team, state that the secret police did investigate this possibility. Death in Ice Valley: New clues in a Norwegian mystery 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Prosecutors say they conspired with officers in a secret police unit to frame Gerard Puana to discredit him in a lawsuit he and his mother filed saying Kealoha stole money from them. Ex-prosecutor rests corruption case without testifying 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Warnig served as an officer in East Germany’s Stasi secret police at the same time as Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden in the late 1980s. Exclusive: American banker and Putin ally dealt in access and... 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “People are still being taken by the secret police, and communities are living between suspicion and fear,” he said. Assad urged Syrian refugees to come home. Many are being welcomed with arrest and interrogation. 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z "It is a Stalinist secret police with extensive powers and operational latitude." Somalia's frightening network of Islamist spies 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z But the prosecutor said the “members of a secret police force called the Criminal Intelligence Unit” were hand-picked by the chief because they were closest to the couple. Prosecutor: Greed fueled Hawaii power couple’s schemes 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The Helicoide, an unfinished complex of office buildings in southern Caracas dating from the 1950s, was converted into a prison of the national secret police, known by its Spanish initials SEBIN. Venezuelan lawmaker’s arrest by Maduro government officers condemned by several nations 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z About 300 opponents of the regime were interrogated and tortured in its underground tunnels both by members of the Chilean secret police and Schäfer's associates. No charges for Colonia Dignidad doctor 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Lithuania's Genocide and Resistance Research Centre told the BBC that Ramanauskas had never collaborated with the Nazis, but lies about him had been spread first by the Soviet-era KGB secret police to discredit him. Row over Lithuania memorial to 'Nazi collaborator' 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Hoping to encourage others, Mr. Pence announced the U.S. is revoking sanctions on Gen. Manuel Cristopher Figuera, the chief of Venezuela’s secret police, after he opted to break from the regime last week. U.S. to lift sanctions on Venezuelan official who broke from Maduro 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Michael Wheat, a U.S. attorney from San Diego, said they tapped into a secret police force to carry out their plan to frame an uncle for a peculiar crime: stealing their home mailbox. Prosecutor: Greed fueled Hawaii power couple’s schemes 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z They can walk into an exhibit that recreates life under the secret police in East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Real spies, not James Bond, take spotlight at new spy museum 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In 2005 I was chased, by car, from Shanghai to Hangzhou by Chinese secret police. Is Chinese-style surveillance coming to the West? | Chip Rolley 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Lind didn’t invent anything that was fundamentally new, he mostly fashioned new forms, as did the czar's secret police in Wilson's analogy. A user's guide to "Cultural Marxism": Anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, reloaded 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z The head of Venezuela's feared secret police has turned his back on disputed President Nicolas Maduro in an open letter made public Tuesday night. Head of Venezuela's secret police breaks with Maduro 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z But in a possible sign that Maduro's inner circle could be fracturing, the head of Venezuela's secret police wrote a letter breaking ranks with the embattled leader. Venezuela awaits more protests after a day of turmoil 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But in a possible sign that Maduro’s inner circle could be fracturing, the head of Venezuela’s secret police wrote a letter breaking ranks with the embattled leader. Venezuela awaits more protests after a day of turmoil 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z After all, even in an age of constant surveillance, we’re talking about being watched not by the secret police but by advertisers and other commercial enterprises. Opinion | How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Last week, Venezuelan secret police detained Mr. Guaidó’s chief of staff on terrorism charges, a move that the Trump administration said would be punished. 2 Russian Military Planes Land in Caracas, Exacerbating Political Tension 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Investigators into the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, are reported to be questioning at least five former agents of the East German secret police about their possible role in Britain’s deadliest ever terror attack. Lockerbie investigators ‘question former Stasi agents’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Early Tuesday, Ms. Soto and several witnesses said, 16 heavily armed secret police officers brought her handcuffed husband home with a search warrant, taking all his electronic equipment and all the family’s cash savings. Venezuela, Seeking Blame for Blackout, Finds Culprit in Opposition Leader 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Her search continued though, and clues led her to south London, and the offices of the secret police unit Jim worked for. 'I'm victim of police conspiracy to rape' 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The secret police run by Contreras was the main agency Pinochet used to suppress his political opponents following his usurpation of power. Female aide to secret police chief under Pinochet arrested in Australia, faces extradition to Chile 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z He was working as the Post's Tehran correspondent and was living in the capital with his wife, Bloomberg News reporter Yeganeh Salehi, when both were arrested by members of the theocracy's secret police. Reporter Jason Rezaian reveals 'torture' he endured in Iranian prison 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z I’ve heard my friends in other former communist nations talk about that the rampant social distrust and the fear of a nighttime knock on the door from the secret police. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Venezuela’s broken promises 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Magistrates in the case are relying on testimony from the members of the feared secret police in Sudan, which is ruled by Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been charged with war crimes. Italy asks Sudan secret police to testify in mistaken identity case 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z So he and others like him knew that if the secret police files from Latvia were ever made public, which they finally were last month, their nefarious activities would be revealed. 4,141 Latvians Were Just Outed as K.G.B. Informants 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z This past weekend, as talk of the assembly naming Mr. Guaidó mounted, masked officers of Venezuela’s secret police, the Sebin, briefly detained Mr. Guaidó as he was heading to a rally outside Caracas. Venezuelan Lawmakers Anoint New Leader They Hope Will Replace Maduro 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The Russian president’s revelation comes shortly after his old East German secret police identification card was reportedly discovered in the Stasi archives. Soldier, spy: more details of Vladimir Putin's past revealed 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z But the Polisario accuses the kingdom of filling the territory it controls with secret police and soldiers, and of violently suppressing free speech and pro-independence protests. Is One of Africa’s Oldest Conflicts Finally Nearing Its End? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Her mother warned her that the secret police might detain people on the street, simply on suspicion of skipping work. How Russia’s military intelligence agency became the covert muscle in Putin’s duels with the West 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “Do we now live in a secret police state? Feels a little like ‘1984.’” Blaming the Deep State: Officials Accused of Wrongdoing Adopt Trump’s Response 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Questioning whether “we now live in a secret police state,” Cain took his frustration about the situation to Twitter earlier this week. FBI misses deadline to provide docs to Judiciary Committee probing whistleblower raid 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z On her way to be interviewed by the secret police, the New York Times reported in 2010, she would buy a ham sandwich, an eclair and an orange — luxuries in the 1970s Soviet Union. Lyudmila Alexeyeva, grand dame of Russian human rights movement, dies at 91 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Taylor knew that the Cuban secret police routinely harassed U.S. diplomats and spies on the island. Exploding Mojitos: The First “Sonic Attacks” Targeting American Diplomats in Cuba May Have Taken Place Thirty Years Ago 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “Shame to all Chekists and their successors and to all who do these awful deeds today,” said the young man, using a Russian term for Stalin’s secret police. In Moscow, an Emotional Assembly to Remember the Victims of Stalin’s Terror 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z You don't need a vast army of secret police. Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We’re “close to the point of no return” 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z He was a former officer in the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, whose crimes in France led to him to become known as the "Butcher of Lyon" France decorates Nazi-hunting couple 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z She established a secret police network, and placed spies throughout the country. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Targets included the São Paulo stock exchange, a secret police headquarters and an oil pipeline. Brazil cult leader who 'contacted aliens' backed dictatorship with terror attacks, documents show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The secret police are always watching, according to sources who've visited Pyongyang. The truth behind Kim Jong-un's K-pop sign 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z The last time I was in Zimbabwe, people were reluctant to discuss politics with strangers and those that did spoke in hushed tones and looked over their shoulders for the secret police, real or imagined. Zimbabwe's 'enemy of the people' returns home 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z And even then, she said, he did not veer into the crude threats often associated with Russia’s secret police. The Kremlin Wants Information. To Get It, Agents Show Up With Flowers. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z In breathtaking passages, the book reveals how most of the Polish codebreakers made it through the war, tapping into the French Resistance and dodging Germany’s military-intelligence services and secret police when France became occupied. Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z That’s how it used to work, in a kinder age before newspapers began using the techniques of the secret police to spy on their targets. Alan Rusbridger: who broke the news? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z His position is also complicated by allegations he collaborated with the former communist-era secret police. Czechs boo PM on anniversary of 1968 Soviet-led invasion 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The party of Mr Requesens says he and his sister Rafaela, an opposition student activist, were taken away from their apartment in the capital, Caracas, by members of the secret police, Sebin. Venezuela crackdown after 'drone attack' 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z |
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