Shiwa Hassanpour, an activist with the human rights monitor Hengaw Organization, based in Iraq’s Kurdish region, said people have been shot for approaching the border, because Iranian forces suspect them of being spies or informants.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
The Weathermen and Panthers held meetings together and exchanged intel about government surveillance and police informants.
And so every regime invests in having student informers.
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Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
Security services also rely on informers to tell them who might be using Starlink, and search internet and social media traffic for signs it has been used.
Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls.
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David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Parties have mostly voted in blocks on major issues in recent years, with small numbers of defectors increasingly rare.
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