This devastating one-two punch of state media subversion with regulatory coercion is, however, a pattern visible in many authoritarian countries.
The ruling by Judge Leonard B. Sand of Federal District Court in Manhattan comes after complaints by lawyers for one defendant, Wadih el-Hage, that prosecutors were engaging in a "pattern of coercion and intimidation" through abuse of the grand jury process and other tactics.
Lawyers for a suspect in a terrorism case involving the bombing of two United States embassies have accused federal prosecutors of employing a "pattern of coercion and intimidation" against at least eight potential defense witnesses through improper use of the grand jury and other tactics.
B5 Terror Suspect Asserts Abuse Lawyers for Wadih el-Hage, a suspect in the bombing of two American embassies, say prosecutors are using a "pattern of coercion and intimidation" against potential defense witnesses through improper use of the grand jury and other tactics.
While these practices run counter to principles of democratic policing, these patterns of coercion have proven remarkably resistant to reform.
Don't, in other words, use state coercion to create a distinctive pattern of rights deemed ever so desirable in the eye of some political beholder.
The first sexual experience was associated with forcible sex or pressure to have sex in nearly 40% of respondents, a worrying finding that is consistent with a pattern of sexual coercion, sexual abuse and high rates of interpersonal violence reported in the Caribbean literature [ 5, 19, 26, 49- 53].
We must remember that this intervention in itself will do nothing to change the harmful behavior patterns — unprotected sex, coercion and violence — that are putting people, especially women, at risk.
IPV is defined as any behaviour within a present or former intimate relationship that leads to physical, sexual or psychological harm, including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviour patterns [ 5].
