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From 1973 to 1988, Verdery, an anthropologist, spent a total of nearly four years conducting field research in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania. Over that time, Romania's security service amassed an impressive file on her, totaling 2,781 pages in eight volumes. She got ahold of it in 2008 and has spent much ...

Indigenous Australian children are 18 times more likely to be placed on a secret police blacklist than non-Indigenous children, analysis of new data by the Greens has revealed. Last year the Youth Justice Coalition – an alliance of peak legal and not-for-profit organisations that work towards youth justice ...

What's your opinion on this article? war-against-black-activists_04-24-2018.jpg. A protester rides his bike in front of a police line in Baltimore, April 27, 2015. WASHINGTON—Since 2014, the federal government and instruments of the state have been spying on Black activists who've been engaged in a ...

UK told to hand over secret police torture report. Lawyers say the government has two weeks to deliver dossier on intelligence officer's alleged role in abduction of Libyan dissident ...

Watch Municipal Clerk Rick Cuttrell discuss releasing the secret report made about claims of sexual harassment and racial discrimination on the Neptune Police Department Austin Bogues. 636589074770772900-Township-committee.jpg. The Neptune Township Committee voted to release the so-called ...

Cairo governor Atef Abdel Hamid announced in a statement that across each of Cairo's neighborhoods, local authorities and security authorities have made significant preparations to ensure security at public parks for Sham el-Nessim, adding that secret police agents have been distributed to parks to arrest ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – In the summer of 2013, the agency that oversees Louisville International Airport announced it was hiring a new public safety director. James Sohan would be in charge of the airport's police, firefighters and medical response teams. A four-paragraph press release listed Sohan's ...

The tale told by "The Death of Stalin" is not of Khruschev as a crude and overweight buffoon but rather as the blunderer who saved Russia from Beria, the sadistic and cruel monstrosity who was Stalin's secret police enforcer (not to mention a rapist and murderer). He was also the opportunist who deeply ...

Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has dismissed the interior minister and the secret-service chief after the arrest and deportation to Turkey of six Turkish nationals a day earlier. In an official statement, Haradinaj said the director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, Driton Gashi, and Interior Minister ...

About a week after he arrived, according to his interview with the Holocaust museum, the Gestapo, or the German secret police, pulled him in for a special interrogation. Somehow, they knew who he was; where he was born and where he grew up. They taunted him about being deported because his ...

Too many bombs and he might end up on one of secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria's lists for arrest, torture, and execution. Stalin himself collapses while guffawing at a piece of hate mail sent by a pianist whose family and friends were lost to his purges. This is his last episode of sadistic laughter. He lies in a ...

POLICE used a secret tracking device to catch a woman who lit fires in rural Victoria under the cover of night. Julie Thumpston, 53, waited until it was dark before using a lighter, matches and pieces of paper to ignite 14 blazes near roads at Tatura and Mooroopna in 2014 and 2015. The Benalla woman ...

news. — Mark Fazlollah. Meek Mill's arresting officer earlier stole cash and lied: secret police report. Updated: March 21, 2018 — 3:46 PM EDT. 535Share; Tweet; Tumblr; Email; Comment; REPRINTS ...

SAN FRANCISCO (IANS) – A team of “secret police” led by senior employee Sonya Ahuja has reportedly been deployed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to catch and punish information leakers at his company. According to a report in The Guardian, an unnamed employee was called to a meeting in ...

But you get on their bad side and all of a sudden you are face to face with [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg's secret police.” The public image of Silicon Valley's tech giants is all colourful bicycles, ping-pong tables, beanbags and free food, but behind the cartoonish facade is a ruthless code of secrecy.

An unnamed employee said he was called into a meeting last year under the guise of a promotion and found himself in front of Facebook's investigative team armed with proof he'd been leaking to the press. The investigative team had records of screenshots the employee had taken and links he had visited ...

According to a secret police report seen by the Rheinische Post (RP) and the Westdeutsche Allgemeine, the man put a hood over the woman's head before strangling her and forcing her to the ground. He then ordered her to take off all her clothes before raping her several times. Police were able to arrest a ...

But some, including Girbovan, say the collusion between the SRI and key oversight bodies goes beyond even the sweeping powers of Ceausescu's despised secret police. “During the Communist era, the Securitate had a limited area of crimes, under the law, the ones related to national security. Through ...

Gingrich compares FBI raid of Trump lawyer to Nazi secret police. By Rebecca Savransky - 04/12/18 08:58 AM EDT 3. 5,325. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook FacebookShare to Twitter TwitterShare to Google+ Google+. inShare ...

We are not abandoning the inquiry. We are desperate to participate, but it must be thorough and credible, write the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance, an alliance of people spied on by Britain's secret police. There were astonishing scenes at the Undercover Policing Inquiry on Wednesday when ...

Few things in South Africa are more visible and yet more secretive than the country's VIP Protection Services. They are seen everywhere, but who they are, how they operate, how much they cost and what outcomes they are responsible for, generally remain a mystery.