secret police
noun
: a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its government often with terroristic methods
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This followed a 2021 German conviction of a onetime member of Assad’s secret police, marking the first time a former Syrian official was found guilty for crimes against humanity.
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Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2022
This was the method East German secret police, or Stasi, used to control the population.
—Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
In 2011, in the southern city of Daraa, a group of teen-age boys were caught painting anti-government graffiti on a wall, and, rather than simply reprimand them, secret police tortured them to death.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman Thirty years after the Cold War ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting effects of living in a surveillance state.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
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Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2022
This was the method East German secret police, or Stasi, used to control the population.
—Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
In 2011, in the southern city of Daraa, a group of teen-age boys were caught painting anti-government graffiti on a wall, and, rather than simply reprimand them, secret police tortured them to death.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman Thirty years after the Cold War ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting effects of living in a surveillance state.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Secret police.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secret%20police. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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