How to Use extrajudicial in a Sentence

extrajudicial

adjective
  • 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

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