The phrase "state harassment" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to oppressive measures taken by a state or government against members of a certain group. For example: "The government's attempts to control the population through state harassment have led to an increase in civil unrest."
Journalists are panicking about state harassment of the company that owns NTV, the main independent television channel.
The BBC shut its office in Tashkent, the capital, citing security concerns and a pattern of state harassment and intimidation.
And on Saturday, riot police officers prevented nearly 100 journalists from holding a peaceful march to protest state harassment.
If parliament rises to the occasion, perhaps some good may have come from what is otherwise a disgraceful episode of state harassment of independent journalism and free citizens.
Observers noted similarities with the tactics that eventually sank Yukos, an oil company which underwent a lengthy campaign of state harassment.
But years of state harassment came to a head in 2012, when Konaté published two articles raising questions about corrupt practices by the state prosecutor, Placide Nikiéma, and implicating police and senior banking officials in a currency counterfeiting scheme.
Although our present-day tactics are state-issued IDs, state-mandated harassment of immigrants and voter-roll purges, these are not a far cry from the poll taxes, literacy tests, residency requirements and discretionary power of local registrars that composed the political racism of a century ago.
Last week, Sotoudeh, a mother of two children, stopped eating in protest at the state's harassment of her family.
Sex workers around the world face diverse challenges: stigma, discrimination, violence – including state violence – harassment, criminalisation, isolation, marginalisation and a lack of adequate health services.
Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco recently signed a law that would make Internet stalking a crime under the state's harassment and stalking laws.
Throughout the trial, Mr. Goldstein had maintained, in loud, colorful and unprintable language, that the state's harassment statute was "overly broad," undercutting his right under the First Amendment to say whatever he desired about his former employee.
