It is happening again right now in Europe.
Reiner Fuelmich, a lawyer who was working on a big lawsuit to prosecute states for their COVID response, is in prison on trumped up charges which break standard court procedure like they did with Assange.
Calin Georgescu is an ex-UN Special Rapporteur turned whistleblower, who exposed Agenda2030 and organised pedophilia among other things in an interview with Reiner Fuellmich. https://rumble.com/v3jc6h8-un-whistleblower-clin-georgescu.html
He won the first round in the presidentials elections in Romania, only to get imprisoned and banned from running again.