intimidation

Ms Maehashi said she had contacted Ms Bellamy's publisher, Penguin Random House Australia, adding that they "brought in lawyers and resorted to what felt to me legal intimidation".

We recognise the chilling effect that harassment and intimidation of elected representatives can have on our democracy.

The Fresno County Superior Court ruled deputies violated the Bane Act, a civil code meant to protect against threats, intimidation, an inference of threat or coercion.

Were the court to release Henley, Butler argued, “he’d also become the most dangerous man to this case, because his entire criminal enterprise is based on fear, intimidation, control.”

John Mader, president of ESC Local 20, urged the company to take a neutral approach to the union so that workers could eventually vote in an election “without interference or intimidation.”