📚 noun • entry_id 17394
secret police
Meanings (ES + gloss)
policía secreta
A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance.
1979, Jello Biafra & John Greenway, "California Über Alles", Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles. Now it is nineteen eighty-four / Knock-knock at your front door / It's the suede…
Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police…
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