reprisal

Many Jews have removed mezuzahs - the small Torah scrolls - from their doorposts, or they have covered them with duct tape out of fear of reprisal.

And those who worked for the former military fear reprisal.

Helen says this, and the fear of reprisal, stopped her from speaking out for more than three decades.

Ross Cassidy also told the inquiry in London on Monday that Mr Skripal, a former Russian intelligence officer, said he could not return to Russia or there would be "reprisals".

Like a harbinger of some twisted future, he speaks of a purge—a single, merciless day of reckoning — where lawlessness would be met with brutal reprisal.