He robbed him at gunpoint.

Officers also abuse their powers by unlawfully occupying houses at gunpoint.

A pardon was obtained at gunpoint for the members of this group.

The author explains that her son was threatened at gunpoint and forced to join Yorov's gang.

Emulating kidnappings in Syria, Jawad painted an abducted Santa in ragged clothes, kneeling on his knees at gunpoint

The soldiers threatened them at gunpoint that they should not help that man, although he was yelling for help.

The looting and pillaging continued banditry is on the increase trucks have been stolen at gunpoint and some drivers killed.

No less than twenty thousand officers and men, fully equipped, were shipped to Cyprus quot . (Democracy at Gunpoint, p. 132)

The European Union condemns the seizure at gunpoint of radio equipment from the Kantipur FM station in Kathmandu by the security forces.

In general, the victims are abducted in the street or at their homes and are forced to enter private vehicles at gunpoint.

So when aid workers are stopped at gunpoint and cannot talk their way through, humanitarian agencies naturally turn to MONUC to guarantee access.

The terrorists then got off the bus and commandeered a car being driven by a woman, whom they took hostage and held at gunpoint.

Economically, Bosnians are forced, at gunpoint, to relinquish their property and material goods before they begin their perilous trek to forests and refugee camps.

For the next five years, Selena lived a life of violence and addiction until finally, she was poisoned, robbed, and held up at gunpoint,

In what has become a disturbing trend, they also seized at gunpoint a number of vehicles being operated commercially and vehicles belonging to humanitarian organizations.

Czech summaries of several reports by human rights rapporteurs, entitled quot Human rights at gunpoint quot were distributed to media, NGOs, selected government offices and institutions.

There have, however, been numerous cases of robberies, many at gunpoint, of vehicles belonging either to the United Nations Offices in Nairobi, or to international civil servants.

On 17 July 2004, an UNRWA mobile health clinic was stopped by IDF, who forced out the UNRWA driver and medical personnel at gunpoint and searched the vehicle.

The situation is all the more tragic because children are often forced to join the armed forces at gunpoint. For example, in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Imagine that they were known, and that the individual victims of policy decisions would somehow stare into the faces of decision makers just as if they were being held at gunpoint.

That same year Leggio shot dead a farm hand in order to take his job, then immediately took over the farm by demanding the owner sign it over to him at gunpoint.

In fact, the analogy of holding victims at gunpoint is misleading, because in public decision making we can hardly claim that everything is all right as long as we don t pull the trigger.

On October 15, 2006, Roukana was taken from her home and dragged into the street after being threatened at gunpoint in front of her young children by members of the country s Criminal Security forces.

Or perhaps ofthose driven to the camps at gunpoint amid the barking dogs and glaring searchlights, with the flames ofthe crematorium in the distance, in one of those night scenes so dear to a Nazi's heart.

2.3 On 16 October 1999, the author was arrested at gunpoint by 20 armed members of the Rapid Intervention Police and DNIC officers at his home in Luanda, without being informed about the reasons for his arrest.

quot A WFP barge convoy along the Nile River corridor was stopped at gunpoint by SPLA Torit soldiers in the Jonglei area of Upper Nile on 6 June and about 2,000 tons of food and non food relief supplies were looted.

Members of my own family lay on the floor of their home as bullets whistled over their heads, and my mother, youngest brother and 11 year old sister were held at gunpoint as Argentine soldiers raided their house for food.

The crime of our time was that which was committed in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya, which accommodates children who are Sudanese refugees. The Garang faction kidnapped 5,000 children at gunpoint to join their ranks, undeterred by conscience or respect for the international covenants that govern the status of refugees and provide for their protection.

While in Battambang, the Special Representative visited at the hospital an alleged inmate of the prison who had lost two arms, the sight of his right eye and the use of one leg as a result of being forced at gunpoint by quot prison quot guards to engage in the removal of land mines planted at the perimeter of the prison to ensure its security.