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Extrajudicial killing

An extrajudicial killing (also known as an extrajudicial execution or an extralegal killing) is the outright killing of a person without the lawful authority granted by a judicial proceeding. It typically refers to government authorities, whether lawfully or unlawfully, targeting specific people for death, which in authoritarian regimes often involves…

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Examples of executions without lawful trial, including acts of attainder

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related to Chile · 27
Extrajudicial killing → Agency, American, Central, Chile, Chile's National Intelligence Directorate, Chilean, Chilean Armed Forces, CIA, Communist, Contreras, DINA, During, He, Manuel Contreras, Operation Condor, Pinochet, Pinochet's, Socialist Party, Some, South America
related to Russia · 25
Extrajudicial killing → Alexander Litvinenko, Alexei Navalny, American, Berlin, British, Chechen, Extrajudicial, Federal Security Service, FSB, GRU, Heiko Maas, In, In August, It, March, Russia, Russian, Russian Federation, Sergei, The German
related to Iraq · 24
Extrajudicial killing → Axis, Ba'athist, Baghdad, British Armed Forces, British Empire, Extrajudicial, Gaylani, Hashemite, Iraq, King Faisal, King Faisal's, King Ghazi, Kingdom, League, Nations, October, Ottoman Empire, Rashid Ali, Saddam Hussein, Sunni
related to Soviet Union · 18
Extrajudicial killing → Cheka, For, Georgi Markov, Germany, Great Purge, Hostages, In, In Soviet Russia, Leon Trotsky, London, Mexico, NKVD, Red Terror, Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet, Stepan Bandera, The, The Soviet
related to El Salvador · 16
Extrajudicial killing → American, Americans, Archbishop, Because, Carter, Death, During, El Salvador, Extrajudicial, In December, March, Reagan, Romero, Rutilio Grande, Salvadoran Armed Forces, Salvadoran Civil War
related to India · 16
Extrajudicial killing → Canada, December, Extrajudicial, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, He, Hyderabad, India, Indian, June, March, Police Encounter, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, September, Such, Telangana Police, Uttar Pradesh
related to Venezuela · 16
Extrajudicial killing → According, Ahead, Amnesty International, Bachelet, Council, Extrajudicial, FAES, Human Rights Watch, June, Michelle Bachelet, OHCHR, Special Action Forces, The, United Nations Human Rights, Venezuela, Venezuelan
related to Bangladesh · 15
Extrajudicial killing → Arif Hossain, Bangladesh, Extrajudicial, In, Lt Col, Lt Commander, Major, Masud Rana, Narayanganj Seven Murder, RAB, Rapid Action Battalion, Tareque Sayeed, The Bangladesh Police, UK, WikiLeaks
related to Argentina · 13
Extrajudicial killing → Argentina, Argentina's National Reorganization Process, Armada, Buenos Aires, Dirty War, During, Escuela, Half, La Guerra Sucia, Mecanica, Spanish, The, These
related to United Kingdom · 13
Extrajudicial killing → Brian Nelson, British, During, IRA, Jean Charles, July, Little, London's Metropolitan Police, Menezes, Northern Ireland, Operation Kratos, Troubles, Ulster Defence Association

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extrajudicial killings death squads common rights also police killed united forces human government killing executions military iraq security war states

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Extrajudicial killingis alegal and moral status of targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States.Section 30.90text
the 1974 abductioninstance ofHe was behind numerous assassinations and human rights abuses0.80text
forced disappearance of Socialist Party of Chile leader Victor Olea Alegriainstance ofHe was behind numerous assassinations and human rights abuses0.80text
the Pinochet administrationinstance ofAmerican dollars supported the regimes that carried out extrajudicial killings0.80text
Abdul Razaq al-Na'asinstance ofAgitators0.80text
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probable militia membershipinstance ofon the death squads used in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador.Western news organizations such as Time and People disassembled this by focusing on aspects0.80text
religious ethnicityinstance ofon the death squads used in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador.Western news organizations such as Time and People disassembled this by focusing on aspects0.80text
as well as uniforms worn by these squads rather than stating the United States-backed Iraqi government had death squads active in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.IsraelIn a report from October 2015instance ofon the death squads used in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador.Western news organizations such as Time and People disassembled this by focusing on aspects0.80text
Amnesty International documented incidents thatinstance ofon the death squads used in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador.Western news organizations such as Time and People disassembled this by focusing on aspects0.80text
as well as uniforms worn by these squads rather than stating the United States-backed Iraqi government had death squads active in the Iraqi capital of Baghdadinstance ofon the death squads used in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador.Western news organizations such as Time and People disassembled this by focusing on aspects0.80text
Extrajudicial killingrelated to ArgentinaArgentina's National Reorganization Process0.60section

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