The civil rights charges stemmed from what the indictment said were illegal searches and unwarranted arrests based on false evidence.

Persecution may refer to unwarranted arrest, imprisonment, beating, torture, or execution.

They have invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.

For greater clarity, a secret policeman is expert in the tools of repression of internal "enemies" which entails surveillance, dirty tricks and unwarranted arrest and imprisonment.

They had altered their Post chips in order to commit these violations of privacy and engage in this unwarranted arrest.

They conducted raids - "hits," Mr. Eurell called them - on suspected drug-dealing sites, stealing money and drugs and making the unwarranted arrests, the officials said.

Now the unwarranted arrest of nonviolent Kurdish political leaders threatens to put a political solution even further out of reach.

They say it should reduce unwarranted arrests, thereby easing overcrowding in Russia's notoriously abysmal prisons, where there are today nearly 1 million prisoners.

The Colorado National Guard made several dozen unwarranted arrests of miners and their supporters and held many people without formal charges, some for several days.

Some district attorneys have also said the bill, by limiting police discretion, might force the police to make unwarranted arrests.