The use or threat of physical harm to individuals, groups, or infrastructure to intimidate, coerce, or suppress dissent, as well as to erode confidence in democratic institutions, processes, and civil society. This includes targeted actions designed to disrupt, manipulate, or delegitimize organizations, movements, and public trust.
Acts of physical violence are included if they are publicly attributed to authoritarian governments, their ruling parties, or individuals, entities, or proxies acting at their behest. These entries provide representative examples of how physical violence undermines democratic institutions or processes, including the silencing of political opposition, the suppression of protest, and the targeting of civil society actors or electoral systems.
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