A 2009 currency confiscation wiped out the wealth of the most successful traders, but the move brought with it hunger and widespread anger.Adding to the potential pressure on the young Kim, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of his revered grandfather's birth when North Korea is to become a "strong and prosperous nation".
IPI, the global press freedom organisation, argues that the two confiscations stand out as the most egregious press freedom violations in Sudan's modern history.
When I ask if the tent is preferable to a shop doorway he laughs and says: "What do you think?" Under a new programme of confiscations carried out by Camden's own homelessness outreach team and the local cops, however, Robin's precious accommodation could be seized at any moment.
If your life savings were threatened with confiscation to bail out a corporation you considered profligate, I imagine you too would rush to withdraw them.
It talks about permitting arson and destroying Jewish businesses and synagogues, and orders the confiscation of all "archival material" out of Jewish community centres and synagogues.
That led to detentions, warnings and confiscation of reporting credentials, as journalists tried to find out what was really going on with Mr. Chen, whose high-profile flight was followed by an equally high-profile flip-flop when he first said he wanted to stay in China then, apparently afraid the Chinese government would target him, said he wanted to go to the United States.
Failure to cross a "t" or dot an "i" on an air freight manifest results in confiscation of relief cargo or its being sent back out on the same plane trying to deliver it to those in need.
Residents of the region say members of outlawed Protestant churches, which have a large following among the ethnic minorities, have joined the protests in large numbers out of anger over the confiscation of their churches and the breakup of religious services.
The Soviet leadership, driven by "paranoia about the counter-revolutionary potential of Ukraine," ordered the confiscation of food from homes and imposed severe restrictions on travel and trade, while also carrying out a purge of scholars, writers, artists, and others.
There was confiscation of property".
That's massive confiscation of private property.
