Intimidation Online

There is no pack mentality or bullying.

But scare tactics did not work this time.

But this effort at intimidation failed, and Gul won.

(ii) Acts of intimidation and harassment against the civilian population

The closer to the August referendum, the more intense intimidation gets.

One of the greatest acts of bullying executed by members of the public service with the oversight of the line Minister.

And, with America bogged down in Iraq, Russian President Vladimir Putin has resurrected Soviet style bullying tactics.

Governmental brutality and intimidation can withstand the march of history for years, but not indefinitely.

He conducted a campaign that relied on his eloquence and charisma, as well as on scare tactics.

10. Notes with concern the climate of intimidation against justice officials, human rights defenders, social activists and journalists

The government has used various tactics to discourage media coverage of protests, including intimidating journalists.

This is especially true for Ukraine and Azerbaijan, which are likely to be Moscow s next targets for intimidation.

Further assistance should also be made conditional on greater freedom of the mass media and an end to intimidation.

The country's re election to the Council has not kept authorities from continuing to target and harass activists over their rights activities.

The right to information is denied to millions through censorship and media intimidation.

In this environment of intimidation, those who yet dared oppose the President got a clear warning through official channels.

(h) The acts of intimidation and persecution against representatives of the Churches, as well as the killings of those persons in the eastern part of the country

Additionally, the report talks about the trolls who intimidate opposition politicians, journalists, and citizens opposed to the regime.

And the work of Iran s conservative Judiciary and Revolutionary Guards has continued to strengthen state intimidation, arrests, surveillance and censorship.

At home, awareness is rising that Putin is damaging Russia s interests by insulting and intimidating everybody.

Reprisals range from suspension of lawyers licenses by the judicial bureaus to physical intimidation or assault by criminal elements.

(f) A continuing pattern of discrimination, harassment and prosecution with regard to the exercise of freedom of thought, conscience and religion

This is an alternative form of intimidation since an official summons for attitude adjustment usually triggers public outrage.

She has her own unique and polite way of making sure she gets her point across without being intimidating or manipulative.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist, writes in her blog that we can consider the recent mass arrest as a early election coup to intimidate Iranian journalists.

Sometimes, intimidators have a vision, belief in their cause, and a reputation for success that attracts others despite their bullying behavior.

(h) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

(k) To ensure the free exercise of political opposition and to prevent the intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

The court's affirmation of a previous ruling dealt yet another blow to media freedom in Macedonia, a country long plagued by issues of media intimidation and harassment.

(f) The forced conscription and displacement, enforced or involuntary disappearances and other acts of intimidation and harassment directed against the population

(f) the acts of intimidation against representatives of the Churches and civil society, throughout the Congolese territory, as well as the killings of those persons in the eastern part of the country

Cases tend to drag on for years, creating an environment that can be used to the advantage of those who seek to stifle critical reporting through criminal acts of intimidation.

The case was highlighted as an instance of media intimidation by UN Rapporteur for Freedom of Speech Frank La Rue in June 2013.

The Egyptian authorities have moved beyond scaremongering and are now rapidly taking concrete steps to shut down the last critical voices in the country's human rights community.

Civil society groups report the arrests of opposition electoral candidates, the manipulation of food supplies for political purposes, and violent incidents of voter intimidation.

Opposition forces, led by Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Nigeria People s Party, accused Obasanjo of using the police to intimidate voters and falsify the election results.

In annexing Crimea and stoking separatist violence in Donbas, the Kremlin s aim has clearly been to destabilize Ukraine in order to bring it under Russia s thumb.

The scare tactic seems to be working, as at least a dozen Hong Kong artists saluted China in words or in photos posted online on the military parade's occasion.

After all, with the rate of functional literacy at only 37.5 , they can easily manipulate the votes of uneducated people with alcohol, pop slogans, and intimidation.

The American people have been treated to a spectacle of jingoism, fear mongering, confusion of Iraq with Osama bin Laden's terrorists, and simple patriotism.

These have become a common scare tactics in stifling media, and particularly independent outlets like Fokus, known for its critical investigative reporting on political institutions and lawmakers.

While censorship is a direct strategy to curtail the free flow of information, arrests, intimidations and the fear of looming surveillance work to stifle freedom of expression more than any technical filter can.

Little of this gets reported (in or outside of Ukraine) because President Kuchma's arsenal of intimidation is vast.

Gravely concerned that the legal system is effectively used as an instrument of oppression, inter alia, through the intimidation and detention of lawyers,