Al-Turki, a well-known member of Denver's Muslim community, was convicted in state court in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft and extortion and sentenced to 28 years to life in prison.
Without conceding that workers should have the right to not join a union, Trumka's claims amount to little more than a defense of The Machine that requires political force and financial extortion to perpetuate itself.
The following study explores human security and gender using quantitative measures in Djohong District, Cameroon, a rural region to where members of the Mbororo tribe from the Central African Republic (CAR) have fled in response to a decade of targeted killings, kidnappings, forced taxation and extortion, beatings, and the burning and looting of their homes and villages [ 13, 14].
Oxfam documented systematic violence and extortion of migrants by police in Bulgaria and reports of brutality against refugees by security forces emerged in various other European nations.
Human Rights Watch's 2010 report on Colombian paramilitaries documents the widespread abuses of successor military groups to the paramilitary coalition that regularly commit massacres, killings, forced displacement, rape, and extortion.
But a series of violent events — including a robbery at gunpoint and extortion — forced them to flee in 2008.
Cablevision released a statement saying that the tabloid published the article as part of Mr. Zuckerman's "campaign of intimidation and extortion" to force the Long Island-based company to merge its tabloid, Newsday, with The Daily News.
Nevertheless, although government officials cited statistics indicating that drug-related violence was declining, murders, forced disappearances, kidnappings for ransom, and extortion remained serious problems.
Nearly two-thirds of the women said threats and attacks by armed criminal gangs, including rape, killings, forced recruitment of their children and extortion payments, were among the main reasons why they left their home countries.
Police commanders have been implicated in drug trafficking, and when U.S. Marines moved into the town of Aynak last summer, villagers accused the local police force of extortion, assault, and rape.
