How to Use extrajudicial in a Sentence

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• To be sure, none of those statements called for extrajudicial killings or any other war crime.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• Concerns have been raised that the latest anti-drug drives are a front for a campaign of extrajudicial killings.
  — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• And when survival is your primary end, you are tempted to use any means to achieve it, even extrajudicial ones.
  — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
• Although the white groups are extrajudicial, many have sought to align themselves with police.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
• Served along with the lattes are personal stories from the staff, who are relatives of those who died in some of the thousands of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2022
• Human rights groups speak of extrajudicial killings by the Civilian J.T.F. as an open secret.
  — Sarah A. Topol Photographs By Glenna Gordon, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• The hanging of Afkari was widely viewed as an extrajudicial killing for his protest against regime corruption.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2020
• Since taking office last year, Duterte has waged a bloody war on drugs that has left thousands dead and that human-rights groups say is a campaign of extrajudicial killings.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 16 May 2017
• His war on drugs has taken the lives of thousands upon thousands in extrajudicial killings.
  — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• Those teams are feared by many Afghans and have been implicated in extrajudicial killings of civilians.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• Lynchings were a brutal form of extrajudicial killings and took place across the country, including the three states where Floyd, Taylor, and Arbrey lived.
  — National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• The committee was set up to probe alleged extrajudicial killings in the three months since Duterte became president.
  — CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Rappler documented the extrajudicial killings of the drug war and analyzed the evolution and impact of fake news in the country.
  — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 14 June 2020
• Clooney said the reporters were arrested in an attempt by Myanmar to keep Reuters from publishing a story on the extrajudicial killings of 10 Rohingya men and boys.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• Most family members of extrajudicial killing victims in the Philippines’ brutal drug war are too afraid to pursue justice through the courts.
  — latimes.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• The Amazonas state police have long been accused of extrajudicial killings and unlawful raids.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc, 11 June 2022
• But the asset freezes, which took place with no court hearings and no due process, are an extrajudicial confiscation of property.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• They have been accused of extrajudicial killings, rape, and torturing people held in the country's network of gulags.
  — Abigail Hauslohner and Alex Horton The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• Crime has been a longtime scourge in Rio, along with human-rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by security forces.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• This has been aided by troops from neighboring Eritrea, who have committed many of the extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses in the region.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 21 June 2021
• While women and other Afghans have protested for their rights over the last year, the Taliban has cracked down on freedom of expression with extrajudicial killings and detainment of activists.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Opponents of the murals have argued that the subject matter has no place in a courthouse because of its scenes of extrajudicial punishment.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
• If slavery is the root of the illness that is white supremacy, then lynchings — brutal extrajudicial murders of black men and women used as a form of social control — are one of its more troubling symptoms.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 26 Apr. 2018
• Some victims belonged to gangs, some were innocent, but all were extrajudicial killings.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• But slowly, over the course of the film, Strassera prevails in holding the officers to account for crimes that include extrajudicial kidnapping, torture and murder.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• The Myanmar military has been accused of rape, extrajudicial killings and arson of villages.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 21 Mar. 2018
• The incident would be at least the second case of apparently extrajudicial killings in Nuevo Laredo this year.
  — Christopher Sherman, ajc, 8 June 2023
• But the platform has also served as the online home of the Russian mercenary company Wagner Group, which has posted gruesome videos of extrajudicial killings.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2024
• In 2021, the United States placed sanctions on an elite paramilitary unit in Bangladesh for its alleged human rights violations and extrajudicial killings.
  — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024