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Though the local authorities had let me go, there was no guarantee I would avoid being interrogated again by Mugabe's secret police.

Before 1989, Romania's Securitate was one of the Eastern bloc's largest secret police forces in proportion to its population.

I thought the Romanian Secret Police had tracked me to America, and now they were trying to kill me. But it wasn't a car at all.

However, all the Manchurians received in a political way from the Kuomintang was one-party rule, military law and the secret police.

The truth was exactly the other way round: it was the Soviet secret police who organised ruthless repatriations, often dividing families.

and Vladimir Styrne, a man said to have instigated widespread repression when he was in charge of a local branch of the secret police.

He said the secret police had hit her.

MI6 was apparently so keen to cooperate that it was prepared to trace phone numbers for his horrific secret police.

Mueller was sacked from her first job as a translator in the 1970s after refusing to work for Ceausescu's hated Securitate secret police.

Secret police services still seem to exercise shadowy influence, yet in neither country is there any sign of their regaining power.

"A modern writer might add, " Show me a dictator that can dispense with the services of a secret police, and I will be his follower.

The beatings begun on the police bus driving arrested protesters to one of Syria's most notorious secret police branches.

At heart, Lukashenko remains a man of Russia's Brezhnev era: His secret police even still use the acronym KGB.

The style of government was a spoils system, underpinned by terror of a vicious network of spies and secret police.

The secret police have been accused of a campaign of genocide against the immigrant population.

Maybe once the disarray of a shoddy presidency and its secret police are cleared away, new problems and issues will be uncovered.

He dismisses Julian Assange's comparison between the war logs and East Germany's Stasi secret police files.

Having faced down the communist-era secret police, he is not scared of a lawsuit against his caustic blog.

A number of senior Chilean officials including Manuel Contreras , commander of the powerful DINA secret police, were charged with the crime.

Its secret police exploited the smallest weakness of anyone who might be useful or threatening.

Over the first weekend in March furious crowds surged into the imposing bureaus of the secret police in half a dozen Egyptian cities.

Her descriptions of Hungary, of communist history and of secret-police tactics are all sharply drawn.

There is a mood of mounting tension, here evident as a woman with dissenting thoughts is followed by secret police.

The army and secret police were well aware of this growing feeling of discontent among the Manchurians.

Both were run by quasi-dictators, complete with strict censorship and a pervasive secret police.

In 1948 repeated interrogations by the secret police in late pregnancy cost the life of her second child, born prematurely.

Until I managed to get a look at files the East German secret police, the Stasi, had kept about me, I didn't know this.

His France was a police state with a vast network of secret police and spies.

They centralized power, eliminated rival parties, attacked religion, established secret police forces and sent dissenters to labour camps.

The secret police have been charged with genocide against the immigrant population.

He was able to make his point without secret police harassment.

Caught by the secret police in 1950 while on an undercover mission to Prague, he was tortured and then served 14 years in a labour camp.

Oil installations will need to be protected, weapons depots guarded, and secret police files preserved.

Fearing being grilled ruthlessly by the secret police , Marsha faced her inquisitors with trepidation .

Note to Taiwan's Secret Police: this last question was a thought from the reader's mind and not written by the author!

Over the weekend, activists stormed several offices of the secret police.

Despite that, they should demur. Our lives are already stored in our computers; we do not want the secret police there too.

Citizens have been asked to report to the secret police if they see foreigners engaged in suspicious activity.

Finally, the Soviet leader put his money on Mohammad Najibullah, the energetic former head of the secret police.

Seeing threats in every corner, the governor has turned to the secret police, who have survived the uprising remarkably unscathed.

The secret police dared not molest Mr. Zuo, they were just out to frighten Mr. Cao.

"Secret police stormed in and took away our computer and documents, " he says.

Academics in Arab countries serve at the pleasure of the secret police, which is one reason I've only quoted western pundits here.

Some activists say Turkey handed Harmoush over to the Syrian secret police, a claim Turkish officials have privately denied.

In addition, China's secret police are among the most capable in the world and are augmented by a vast network of informers .

Those arrested included Zhou Enlai, the future premier of communist China, who had been trained by the Soviet secret police.

In March, both were arrested, tortured by Mr. Mugabe's secret police and then paraded together before a court before being released.

These typically involve a public figure's real or alleged collaboration with the communist secret police.

A rebel militiaman opens a burned file cabinet in the ashes of a Libyan secret police office on Feb. 27, in Brega.

Under Malenkov, Stalin's ruthless secret police chief Lavrenti Beria amnestied thousands of political prisoners from the Gulag in 1953.

Lenin's radical and violent ideas of revolution had led the Bolshevik's to power, His secret police, the Cheka, maintained it.

This highlights how Romania's secret-police files are a political currency.

The warrants also include dozens of former military and secret police officials who have never faced charges before.

The Soviet organ of state security, the KGB, has its roots in the secret police employed by the Czar.

in 1939 Dai Li changed it into a detention house under his secret police (Juntong).

Will the secret police, still hunkered in their bunkers, give up their power peacefully?

Dog All the time he was in that country the secret police dogged his steps.

Many fear that the regime's secret police will before long start to knock on doors in the dead of night.

Others draw up lists of car licence plates associated with the secret police or informants.

At its eight checkpoints, zealous secret police and UN peacekeepers' white jeeps stand by.

We may banish hunger, violence and secret police, we cannot-as we have tired to do -banish death it self.

The Soviet secret police helped train the Gestapo and discussed how to deal with the "Jewish question" in occupied Poland.

'I kept thinking the secret police would arrive, ' he says, 'but we never heard anything. '

Soldiers have largely allowed protests to continue, and at first stood aside to let citizens invade secret police offices.

There is no secret police breathing down our backs watching our every move.

The collapse of the secret police has brought relief in smaller ways.

The ministry of the interior dissolved the secret police.

The night before the balloting Chiang's secret police visited the known supporters of Li and advised them to switch to Sun Fo.

The notoriously nasty secret police are on a tighter leash.

That proposal has sparked an outcry in a country that is especially sensitive to the possibility of abuse by secret police.

Opposition activists are closely monitored by the secret police - still called the KGB.

Some members of the secret police remain in place.

The secret police sweated the suspected spy FOR hours.

Or preferred secret police to freedom of speech?

They colluded with the secret police.

The Nigerian secret police say that a member of Boko Haram recently came back from Somalia to oversee the attack.

Two Kims inspect N. Korea's secret police agency.

He divulged our plans to the secret police.

This is true, but the secret police in many countries are equally excited about technology.

The people were oppressed by the dictator's secret police.

And there he saw all the secret police, and the people were scared and didn't smile.

The Chinese bully secret police are above the law.

Archbishop of Warsaw has admitted that he worked with the Polish secret police

Secret Police General -- General Jin