Keeping the accused isolated, denying them the presence of a lawyer during interrogation and then staging a media show trial of members of a minority group are age-old methods of coercion and domination by totalitarian regimes.
A report in the newspaper O Globo described how militias had spread to 11 of Brazil's 26 states, often initially winning over slum residents by killing drug traffickers before imposing their own methods of coercion and control.
"Pimps and customers use methods of coercion and control like those of other batterers: minimization and denial of physical violence, economic exploitation, social isolation, verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, physical violence, sexual assault, and captivity".
Some people have accused the group of using methods of coercion and empty promises in order to recruit new members and of being used as propaganda for the government of Alexander Lukashenko.
In some cases, physical torture accompanied the indoctrination, but in general the Chinese used the traditional methods of psychological coercion: repetition and humiliation.
On the other hand, by 1000, with landlords' acquisition of private judicial powers over tenants, there were new methods of rural coercion that did not depend on tenants' servile status, since landlords could also apply these methods to free peasants.
Additionally, perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of coercive measures and methods of informal coercion are assessed [ 27, 28].
Instead, it is being used as a method of terror and coercion by the United States government upon a citizen who has not even been convicted of a crime.
The leaders are different, specific to their own cultures, but share many characteristics and employ similar methods of control and coercion, buying loyalty and penalising opposition and resistance.
