All three endured vicious intimidation.
At the same time, workers at a tractor-making company in Tabriz, in the north-west, signed a letter accusing managers of "brutal treatment, intimidation and failing to pay wages".
Facing police brutality, KKK intimidation, and the brutal Mississippi heat, they finished the March Against Fear on June 26, with 15,000 people joining them in the last part of the march, from Tugaloo to Jackson.
In countries like Mexico, the Philippines, and Pakistan, local journalists are the target of brutal campaigns of intimidation and murder by shadowy secret services or armed groups, from narco-traffickers to Islamists.
The same brutal message of intimidation that the jailing of Afiuni sent to judges throughout the country, the jailing of her attorney is sending to lawyers up and down the land.
A NATO officer who tracks Haqqani activities in southeastern Afghanistan gave a blunt assessment of the Haqqanis' brutal ways of intimidation, saying: "They will execute you at a checkpoint, or stop you and go through your phone.
The revolution has dragged on for over a year, despite mass arrests, intimidation, brutal abuse of prisoners, tanks stationed threateningly along main highways and city squares, roving and reckless militias, massive security presence, and checkpoints choking nearly every road.
Although Mauritania's commitment to combating terrorism has brought relief to many of its people, for others it has become an excuse for the continued use of torture and other brutal forms of intimidation — all with the assent of the very foreign governments that claim to decry such methods.
