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  2. Shanghaiing - Wikipedia

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    Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps.

  3. Forcible entry - Wikipedia

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    Forcible entry training using a Halligan bar.. Forcible entry is "the unlawful taking of possession of real property by force or threats of force or unlawful entry into or onto another's property, especially when accompanied by force". [1]

  4. Impressment - Wikipedia

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    The events in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Sylvia's Lovers (1863) take place against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Charlie Kinraid is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang and later Sylvia Robson's father is executed for leading a revengeful raid on press-gang collaborators.

  5. Kidnapped U.S. national feared dead in the Philippines ...

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    Elliot Eastman was forcibly taken by four unidentified suspects posing as policemen from his home in the coastal town of Sibuco in Zamboanga del Norte on Oct. 17, according to an initial police ...

  6. Coercion - Wikipedia

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    Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner through the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party. [1] [2] [need quotation to verify] [3] It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desired response.

  7. Deportation - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of deportation vary, with some implicating "transfer beyond State borders" (distinguishing it from forcible transfer), [2] others considering it "the actual implementation of [an expulsion] order in cases where the person concerned does not follow it voluntarily", [3] and others differentiating removal of legal immigrants (expulsion ...

  8. Extortion - Wikipedia

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    Exaction refers not only to extortion or the demanding and obtaining of something through force, [2] [better source needed] but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant. [3] [better source needed]

  9. Iran arrests female student who stripped to protest harassment

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    Another video shows her being detained by security forces and forcibly taken into a car. Islamic Azad University confirmed her arrest on X (Twitter) without giving any reason.