The arrest and persecution of political opposition figures are growing more common in ostensibly democratic developed nations, not through the traditionally overt authoritarianism associated with far-flung dictatorships, but through a concept known as lawfare – the weaponization of the legal system.
Lawfare manipulates the law and its enforcement against dissidents, often under subjective pretexts such as combating threats to democracy or upholding the rule of law.
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