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Another, sad Wikipedia fail. [[User:Ghostofnemo|Ghostofnemo]] ([[User talk:Ghostofnemo|talk]]) 01:00, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
:No, this was a success ... material that did not refer to police states was correctly rejected as a source for statements about police states. To treat "police state" and "authoritarian regime" or "unfree state" as synonymous (they clearly are not; constitutional states can be authoritarian and unfree) on your say-so would have been a failure. -- [[Special:Contributions/184.189.217.91|184.189.217.91]] ([[User talk:184.189.217.91|talk]]) 04:40, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
== Objective standards ==
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For example, [[Freedom House]] uses these criteria: "For each country and territory, Freedom in the World analyzes the electoral process, political pluralism and participation, the functioning of the government, freedom of expression and of belief, associational and organizational rights, the rule of law, and personal autonomy and individual rights." https://freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-world You could also use incarceration rates, number of people killed or injured by security personnel, number of people charged with ideological crimes, etc. [[User:Ghostofnemo|Ghostofnemo]] ([[User talk:Ghostofnemo|talk]]) 03:22, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
:Here is an example from an article by a former U.S. State Department employee: "... Saudi Arabia remains one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes. Women must have the consent of a male guardian to enroll in college, look for a job or travel. They cannot swim in public or try on clothes when shopping. The Saudi government also routinely arrests people without judicial review, according to Human Rights Watch. Citizens can be executed for nonviolent drug crimes, often in public. Forty-eight people were beheaded in the first four months of 2018 alone. Saudi Arabia ranks just above North Korea on political rights, civil liberties and other measures of freedom, according to the democracy watchdog Freedom House. But its wealth, strategic Middle East location and petroleum exports keep the Saudis as a vital U.S. ally." https://theconversation.com/saudi-arabia-is-a-repressive-regime-and-so-are-a-lot-of-us-allies-105106 [[User:Ghostofnemo|Ghostofnemo]] ([[User talk:Ghostofnemo|talk]]) 05:29, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
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