After this, I began to notice the language of persecution and victimization being bandied about everywhere from politics, to sermons, to the media, but rarely in regard to situations that involve imprisonment and violence.
The downside, it should be added, is a seriously disturbed family life, usually involving exile, imprisonment and, almost invariably, assassination.Widows' politics is especially eye-catching in the Philippines because of the personalities involved: the redoubtable Mrs Aquino and the well-heeled, indeed well-shod, Imelda Marcos, whose husband was the dictator Mrs Aquino deposed.
The charge of false imprisonment involves threats that Iverson is accused of making to Jones and Carey while showing them a black handgun in his waistband, according to court documents.
Reporters Without Borders claims the media environment in Zimbabwe involves "surveillance, threats, imprisonment, censorship, blackmail, abuse of power and denial of justice are all brought to bear to keep firm control over the news".
He added that at present "mainly Detective Osback has been indicted, and he was arraigned on multiple offenses involving perjury, unlawful imprisonment and official misconduct".
Sangeen Zadran was the powerful shadow governor of Paktika Province in Afghanistan and was involved in the imprisonment of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who has been held by the Haqqani Network since 2009.
Among the suspected patient-dumping cases that have drawn attention is one in which Mr. Delgadillo has charged Kaiser Permanente with misdemeanor false imprisonment involving a case last year caught on videotape.
In the same way that the Russian authorities tried to silence Magnitsky before his untimely death, they are using the threat of reopening the case as an intimidation tactic to discourage Magnitsky's family from pursuing prosecution of the police and tax officials involved in his imprisonment.
In 2006, after moving to New York with his musical Taboo, he was sentenced to sweep the streets of New York for possession, and in 2009 was jailed in Britain after a bizarre case involving the false imprisonment of a 29-year-old Norwegian male escort and model, Audun Carlsen.
Bolin also saved a speech by Kathleen Cleaver, a former Black Panther spokeswoman, in which she talked about shootouts and imprisonment involving African Americans.
