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  • adjective Alternative spelling of plain clothes.

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Examples

  • The combined reports say the Sufis were detained without warrants, and assaulted by government operatives in plain-clothes and members of the Basij paramilitary volunteers.

    Stephen Schwartz: Iranian Sufis Under New Attack Stephen Schwartz 2011

  • Turning Beijing's apartment buildings into plain-clothes prisons for the intellectual elite may be ingenious, but perhaps human rights campaigners could use them to expose the regime's repression.

    The House Prisons of Beijing 2011

  • More photos and interactive graphics He said that in the province's biggest city, also named Hama, 72 detained peaceful protesters had been executed in the central prison and buried in mass graves near the military's headquarters, while the Shabiha plain-clothes militia loyal to the regime had buried an additional 420 bodies in public parks.

    Syrian Official Joins Opposition Farnaz Fassihi 2011

  • The combined reports say the Sufis were detained without warrants, and assaulted by government operatives in plain-clothes and members of the Basij paramilitary volunteers.

    Stephen Schwartz: Iranian Sufis Under New Attack Stephen Schwartz 2011

  • The combined reports say the Sufis were detained without warrants, and assaulted by government operatives in plain-clothes and members of the Basij paramilitary volunteers.

    Stephen Schwartz: Iranian Sufis Under New Attack Stephen Schwartz 2011

  • Dispatch Watch Videos of Protests in Iran Iran's government reacted with force, deploying large swats of anti-riot police and plain-clothes Basij militia to crush the crowds armed with batons, tear gas and guns.

    Iran Protesters Clash With Police Farnaz Fassihi 2011

  • They are turned away by plain-clothes police, often violently.

    China's Legal Blindness Jerome A. Cohen 2011

  • A plain-clothes police officer (P) sees a man he believes to be the same man (D) he saw rob a bank earlier.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Indiana Appellate Case on the Right to Resist a Police Officer’s Unlawful Entry 2010

  • Just this month came the news of activist Haleh Sahabi, who died of a heart attack after being beaten by plain-clothes security forces.

    Where the Dead Are Considered Dangerous Homayoun Mobasseri 2011

  • The combined reports say the Sufis were detained without warrants, and assaulted by government operatives in plain-clothes and members of the Basij paramilitary volunteers.

    Stephen Schwartz: Iranian Sufis Under New Attack Stephen Schwartz 2011

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