Political repression in Brazil has only gotten worse since then.
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And more social freedom is accompanied by greater political repression.
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It is a new form of political repression, participants said.
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For many, it's a foreshadowing of greater political repression ahead.
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People are complaining about land ownership, corruption, political repression and poverty.
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The story of political repression in Tibet is a familiar one.
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These things happened under capitalism, too, as did intense political repression.
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For others, the talk of regulating Islam is thinly veiled political repression.
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He said he had fled political repression in Honduras, his home country.
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To Mr. Roginsky, referring to "victims of political repression" was not enough.
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"Moving from a country like Burkina Faso (political repression equals 8) to a country like Uzbekistan (political repression equals 14) results in an increase of around 212.58 Tor bridge users per 100,000 Internet users per year," the paper reads.
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"Political repression has become an important part of our public life," he said.
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His lawyer, Geert-Jan Knoops, says this is an excuse for political repression.
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The attack on Mr Lissu occurred in an atmosphere of intensifying political repression.
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" "This discourse of denial, this is the head of the systematic political repression.
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Hunger is becoming more widespread, as is political repression from the Maduro regime.
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Corruption and political repression will drive them away—even as they eat up resources.
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Human Rights Watch said the arrests fall into a wider campaign of political repression.
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The analyst adds that growing unrest could also lead to heavy-handed political repression.
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The Maduro government has long faced protests against political repression and human-rights abuses.
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Countries on the lower end of the political repression spectrum also showed significant use.
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In October, Russia unveiled its first state-sponsored monument to victims of political repression.
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And in just the last several weeks, police have increased political repression of school occupations.
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The defendants deny the charges and say the trial is an act of political repression.
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The Cubans, by and large, say they are fleeing political repression in the Caribbean nation.
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The political repression our people the Amhara have been suffering from has continued under Abiy.
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The exodus has surged under Mr Maduro's rule, characterised by political repression and grotesque economic mismanagement.
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These days, the kingdom is still deeply conservative; social reforms are coupled with harsh political repression.
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South Korea's dictators had offered economic growth and political repression; its people were clamoring for more.
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OVD-Info, a group that monitors political repression in Russia, reported on Twitter that by 7 p.m.
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This is why oil-rich countries are much more likely to suffer civil wars and political repression.
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Gorbachev came to office intent on easing political repression at home and defusing tensions with the West.
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Often described as public security systems, the technologies have darker potential uses as tools of political repression.
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"For 28 years, the Prosecutor General's Office was an instrument of pressure and political repression," he said.
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Moreover, Sisi has presided over an unprecedented level of political repression that is fueling radicalization amongst Egyptian youth.
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In 2100, eight years after a military coup, Dennis left her home in Turkey to escape political repression.
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The AL's unrelenting campaign of political repression made any idea of a level electoral playing field a farce.
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Over the past century, liberals and socialists have engaged in rancorous debate, bitter recrimination, and even political repression.
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Cuarón places their poignant and hilarious sexcapades in a vivid neorealist landscape of social inequality and political repression.
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The chronology covers two distinct periods: the political repression after Tiananmen and the economic boom in the 2000s.
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The New Year's day march included calls to restart stalled democratic reforms and to fight "political repression" from Beijing.
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In any event, the election looks set to take place amid the harshest political repression in Egypt in decades.
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But the structural violence and political repression in Kashmir are equally responsible for turning Mr. Dar into a weapon.
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The 1930s brought a turn toward political repression in Peru, and stark modernist geometry dominated art in the region.
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Political repression and trade wars may drag down growth rates, and an increasingly domineering government may make bad decisions.
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Thousands of Eritreans flee their small Horn of Africa country every year, citing political repression and lengthy military conscription.
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Stability and oil enabled Algeria to weather the 2011 uprisings in the region, but with them came political repression.
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If difficult memories of political repression made Jewech hesitant to attend, they also helped convince her to take a stand.
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"The results show that, controlling for other relevant factors, political repression does drive usage of the Tor network," Jardine writes.
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In October, President Putin opened a Kremlin-promoted monument to victims of political repression in Moscow, the Wall of Sorrow.
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Today's levels of police violence and political repression disgust many Hong Kongers, but are not brutal enough to deter protesters.
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But a year later, Mr. Guaidó's campaign for regime change is flagging, while Mr. Maduro has ramped up political repression.
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Public-sector workers, suffering economic & political repression, now stand with Guaido and the promise of a better future for Venezuela.
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It's a recipe for political repression that harkens back to Brazil's era of military dictatorship in the 60s to the 80s.
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Still, he notes the stark resemblance between the OneState and Stalinism, with its cult of personality, rapid industrialisation and political repression.
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Investing more heavily in more direct and effective politics is pivotal to preventing elite cultural and political repression of traditional values.
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Political repression and violent corruption: Honduras, for example, has long been one of Central America's poorest and economically most unequal countries.
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Russia is also trying to hijack the U.S. judiciary for corrupt purposes, expropriation and political repression, which has received little attention.
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Pavel's father, Aleksandr I. Mramornov, said he appreciated the march but wished Russians would also remember the victims of political repression.
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Despite Mr Abramovich's efforts, Chukotka has yet to recover from nearly a century of political repression and brutally crass communist mismanagement.
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And that's just what has happened, along with some of the political repression that generally accompanies this type of regime change.
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The bills condemn the Chinese government for political repression and violence in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, a province in Western China.
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All together about 350 people were detained across Russia, according to OVD Info, a group that monitors political repression in Russia.
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But critics say Maduro has turned the South American OPEC nation into a dictatorship, far surpassing his predecessor Chavez in political repression.
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In a book in 2007 he argued that political repression, rather than a dearth of economic opportunity, did most to foment terrorism.
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Activists have pointed out many countries buying China's weapons have notorious human rights records, including political repression, mass corruption and ethnic cleansing.
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There are lots of people speculating about the long-term emotional impact that political repression and institutional breakdown will have on Venezuelans.
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"We consider this decision an act of political repression that is impermissible in contemporary Russia," Mr. Zhenkov said in a telephone interview.
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Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world and suffers from endemic gang violence, unemployment, grinding poverty, and political repression.
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But faced with harsh political repression, most simply shrug their shoulders — which is why Wednesday's crash is unlikely to have serious political repercussions.
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Having immigrated 20 years ago, she worries that America is now on a course toward the political repression she thought she'd left behind.
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Likewise, Meral Ebrahem, a 40-year-old immigrant from Egypt, sees in Trump shades of political repression—some potential and some already realized.
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A native of Minsk, Belarus's capital, Mr Sheremet made a name for himself by covering political repression under that country's strongman, Alexander Lukashenko.
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The fast-moving developments convulsed Venezuela, a once-prosperous country that has been devastated by years of political repression, economic mismanagement and corruption.
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Editorial For many years, Algeria's 79-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, suppressed dissent through a combination of generous public subsidies and political repression.
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In our current political climate, many people have a hunger for stories of perseverance and idealism enacted during a period of political repression.
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Political repression, a lack of free elections, and severe limits on demonstrations and free media are, in many countries, a source of instability.
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He preposterously proclaimed that there was "no political repression" on the island, which was then ruled by President Jean-Claude Duvalier, a tyrant.
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Previous leaders have managed the tension between a liberalising economy and an obsession with stability through a mix of rapid growth and political repression.
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The "China fantasy" got the dynamics precisely wrong: Economic development, trade and investment have yielded greater political repression and a more closed political system.
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Two-thirds of "The Wind in My Hair" is a story of a woman struggling against incredible odds, poverty, political repression and personal crises.
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The MDC accuses President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of political repression and mismanaging an economy that is mired in its worst crisis in a decade.
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Bratescu's work centers on a paradox she is reticent to talk about: She worked freely as an artist in a period of political repression.
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The law — which remained in place for the next 30 years (as did Mubarak) — allowed for corruption and political repression to sweep the nation.
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International human rights organisations have frequently condemned Egypt's record under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, saying political repression is at its worst for decades.
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The drastic economic liberalization has been accompanied by political repression designed to snuff out the last vestiges of organized opposition to Mr. Maduro's rule.
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The world had to confront the "murderous" regime in Iran, Mr Trump said, condemning Iranian support for terror groups abroad, and political repression at home.
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It's not easy to start a record label anywhere, and doubly so when you live in a country shaken by political repression and terrorist violence.
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Nowhere is the poisonous mix of demographic stress, political repression and economic incompetence more worrying than in Egypt under its strongman, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
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But it fits into the tradition of cangtou shi, or hidden poems, which have long flourished in China under conditions of political repression, he said.
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He condemned injustice and spoke out against political repression amid an intensifying war between leftist rebels and government and right-wing forces in El Salvador.
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She joined dozens of others in the group, mainly women, who took to the streets at a time of fierce political repression and widespread fear.
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Worse still, Maduro has seasoned his economic misrule with political repression, holding scores of political prisoners and stripping the nation's legislative body of its authority.
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Since his "historic opening" with Cuba of December 85033, the Castro dictatorship has intensified its political repression with the arrest of more than 10,000 dissidents.
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And it's a challenge that, even today, we are navigating without the level of violence and fracture and political repression that defined America's recent past.
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The show becomes strangely focused on nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, ignoring the mass Nazi ethnic cleansing and political repression the first season hinted at.
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Another recent visitor: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whom President Obama banned from the Oval Office because of the harshest political repression in Egypt's history.
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Since then, a mixture of political repression, fear of chaos, pride in China's advance and a huge rise in living standards has kept the country steady.
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Ethiopia's success in averting another disaster is confirmation that famine is elective because, at its core, it is an artifact and a tool of political repression.
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They hail from dozens of countries, but most are from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Nigeria—countries struggling with war, political repression, climate change, and endemic poverty.
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Ukraine marked an annual day of remembrance for victims of political repression on Sunday — including Soviet purges of Crimean Tatars and other groups on Ukrainian soil.
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Venezuela's opposition says the government routinely frames activists by planting explosive materials, arms and money, and invents links between them and criminals, to justify political repression.
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Mareshki, a self-described Bulgarian Donald Trump who leads the populist Will party, denied wrongdoing, adding he was the victim of political repression by the prosecutor's office.
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The MDC accuses Mnangagwa of political repression and blames his government for mismanaging the economy, triggering triple-digit inflation and widespread shortages of fuel, power and bread.
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"The current Russian government, in sponsoring the opening of the monument, is trying to pretend that political repression is a thing long since past," the petition read.
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And for poor East European Jews — especially the millions in western Russia who faced political repression and frequent pogroms — the international workers' movement offered a tantalizing freedom.
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The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday on four Venezuelan officials, accusing them of engaging in political repression and public corruption as part of President Nicolás Maduro's government.
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And so, a large young population overwhelmed with unemployment and emboldened by decades of political repression took to the streets when they could not afford basic bread.
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Ida Sawyer, Central Africa director at international rights body Human Rights Watch, said in a report issued on Friday the election had been preceded by political repression.
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But specific to this part of the world is a particular combination of Confucianism and Communism that has made social and political repression very extreme at times.
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The Communist Party has shown no signs of lessening its grip on the country however, and political repression and control has only increased under Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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There, commercial ties with the United States have helped transform the country dramatically in social and economic terms even as older forms of political repression remain in place.
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Political repression and bleak economic prospects remain the primary reasons cited by Cubans for migrating from the Communist-ruled island, a Cold War foe of the United States.
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Political repression in West African countries like Gambia, insurgent violence and famine in countries like Nigeria, and civil war in Sudan, all fuel emigration out of home countries.
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He is one of more than 480 people stripped of Bahraini citizenship since 2012, a punishment that Human Rights Watch has described as a tactic of political repression.
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"For us, this is an existential struggle," he added, saying his generation grew up under socialist rule and was fed up with economic hardship, crime and political repression.
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When this greatest of German composers worked on what would be his final symphony in the 1820s, his admiration for Napoleon had curdled, amid political repression, into disillusionment.
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Among the reasons they've given CNN for fleeing the country: widespread gang violence, domestic violence, poverty, political repression after a contested presidential election and discrimination against the transgender community.
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Among the reasons they've given CNN for fleeing the country: widespread gang violence, domestic violence, poverty, political repression after a contested presidential election, and discrimination against the transgender community.
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Six of the committees likely to be affected oversee adherence to treaties that uphold children's rights and combat civil and political repression, discrimination against women, torture and racial discrimination.
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It was not clear whether it would be near the stone or at an alternative site proposed by the city: A state-supported monument to victims of political repression.
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America was living under a cloud of fear created by the House Un-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism, which brought political repression, blacklists and censorship of literature and art.
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Since taking office, in 2012, he has redoubled political repression and suspended term limits on the Presidency, so he will run the country for as long as he chooses.
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Daniel arap Moi: As the autocratic president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002, he ruled the country in a postcolonial era of political repression, economic stagnation and notorious corruption.
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Most cite a lack of jobs, low incomes, poor prospects and growing political repression in Egypt since general and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power in mid-2013.
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There's no way it could've been the bloody aftermath of the Civil War, when Southern whites reestablished control of their territory through a campaign of state violence and political repression.
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These works create a feeling of immediacy but also one of experimentation, as if the artists were constantly probing the limits of what was possible amid landscapes of political repression.
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A smaller coalition of Latin American countries has joined with Canada to create the Lima Group, whose vociferous condemnation of the political repression has not converted to much concrete action.
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In many parts of the postwar Global South, from the Middle East to Latin America, middle classes prospered in authoritarian regimes and, fearful of social instability, often supported political repression.
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The United States is the New World, the "land of the free," settled and founded by people who left a Europe full of political repression, economic backwardness and cultural decadence.
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Gambia has suffered high unemployment and political repression for years under Mr. Jammeh, with many citizens abandoning the country to risk perilous and often deadly journeys to Europe by sea.
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In Moscow's wooded Sokolniki park, rights activists gave speeches criticizing the new legislation while some people carried banners reading "Down with political repression" and "Repression is fear before your own people".
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Wabella spent over a year in jail because of his role as co-founder of Zone9, a blogging collective that highlighted human rights abuses, corruption and political repression in the country.
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These women dedicated their lives to their art: an ardent desire to make art as a profession despite the countless discouraging factors they faced like patriarchy, political repression, violence, and sexism.
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Critics say Issoufou has used political repression in the run-up to the vote, arresting opposition supporters and jailing opposition leader Hama Amadou over charges related to a baby-trafficking ring.
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"The US support for the Honduran military coup in 2009 and the electoral coup of November 2017 have intensified military and political repression, insecurity, and physical and economic violence," the group said.
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In the aftermath of the protests, a group that monitors political repression in Russia reported that, by the evening, more than 1,300 people had been detained in 21 cities across the country.
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As night fell, protesters — enraged by economic troubles and political repression — headed into the streets to face off against black-clad riot police on motorcycles and plainclothes militiamen, with more violence expected.
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Cubans are increasingly traveling to Mexico to reach the U.S. border to request asylum, many of them citing political repression and bleak economic prospects on the Communist-ruled island as their motivation.
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He murdered, stole and tortured his people Firing squads, political repression, human deprivation have been the results, all while top government officials and the Castros lived luxurious lives in other people's houses.
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Despite the political repression, life in China in the years after Tiananmen was chiefly characterised by the roiling economic activity that marked the country's scramble to turn itself into a global power.
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Via carrot and stick — conceding U.S. citizenship, pulling the island into the U.S. economy and resorting to political repression — federal authorities cut the independence option at the knees a long time ago.
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Aside from these brief moments of levity, the rest of the documentary is a grim foray into China's political repression machine, a complex web of unchecked corruption, misguided patriotism, and pervasive propaganda.
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The inflation crisis comes on top of deep political repression led by President Nicolás Maduro, who was declared the winner of a vote this year that will extend his term until 2025.
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But for these elections to resolve the conflict, all parties will have to trust that they will not be subject to political repression or reprisal if they are on the losing side.
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Keeping a diary was "particularly impossible," said Irina S. Ostrovskaya, the senior archivist at Memorial, the Russian civil rights organization founded to establish a record of the victims of Soviet political repression.
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"These camps constitute the cornerstone of the country's large infrastructure dedicated to political repression and social control that enables widespread and systematic human rights abuses," rights group Amnesty International said in a statement.
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But for Kosovo Albanians, who had faced political repression from Serbia throughout most of the 1990s and had virtually no allies throughout the twentieth century, this was the start of the American infatuation.
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That information included a rating for a country's political repression, derived from assessments made by US-based research group Freedom House, and metrics for Tor usage, sourced from the Tor Project's own figures.
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Coupled with video of soldiers firing on unarmed demonstrators on Wednesday, the raid does serious damage to Mnangagwa's efforts to rehabilitate the image of a country synonymous with political repression and economic collapse.
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The United States has a long history of waves of political repression: the "Red Scare" of 173-20, the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, the McCarthy period, the Nixon presidency.
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" Meeting with older adults in St. James's Cathedral in Riga, the capital, later in the morning, the pope acknowledged that some had experienced "the horror of war, then political repression, persecution and exile.
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The Thread RE: CHINESE LAWYERS Alex W. Palmer wrote about the plight of China's human rights lawyers, who, when faced with their country's political repression, often have to choose between acquiescence or imprisonment.
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The wide-ranging surveillance technologies provided by European companies to TRD have made it capable of spying on political opponents and activists at a time of increasing political repression by the Egyptian government.
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The Obama administration, while more vocal about political repression around the world, also faced criticism from human rights groups and some U.S. lawmakers that decisions on annual human trafficking rankings had become increasingly politicized.
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ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna - Basque Country and Freedom) was founded in 1959 and arose from anger and frustration among Basques, who have their own language and culture, from political repression under General Francisco Franco.
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"In many countries with authoritarian governments, the drop in revenues from falling commodity prices led dictators to redouble political repression at home and lash out at perceived foreign enemies," Puddington said in a statement.
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The lurch toward a more Islamist, autocratic posture by President Recep Tayyib Erdogan has long worried regional and western observers, particularly his strong curbs on political speech and active political repression of the Kurds.
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In Rwanda, a history of political repression and attacks on dissidents "stifles political debate and makes those who might speak out think twice before taking the risk," Amnesty International wrote recently in a report.
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The rapprochement comes after Cambodia, one of China's closest allies in Asia, had threatened to turn its back on both the United States and the European Union (EU) over their criticism of political repression.
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Socialism is in vogue, but it's a gentler version that offers a big public safety net that provides basic needs for people (to include higher education) — just without political repression and human rights abuses.
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Psychiatry has had a checkered past: Witness its collusion in Nazi eugenics policies, Soviet political repression and the involuntary confinement in mental hospitals of dissidents and religious groups in the People's Republic of China.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Galvanized by the release from jail of hardline leader Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuelan opposition supporters on Sunday marked 100 days of protests against a socialist government they blame for political repression and economic misery.
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Now that the uprisings have either been beaten down or degenerated into murderous civil war (except in Tunisia), the lot of young Arabs is even worse: they face more political repression and worse job prospects.
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With the government largely hidden from public view, it is not even clear whether Mr. Sisi has full control over the political repression, abductions, torture and other human-rights violations ascribed to the security services.
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Survivors and their families said poverty and a lack of jobs and opportunity along with political repression in Egypt have driven thousands to embark on perilous journeys in rickety boats across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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Pioenza said his wife applied for refugee status after arriving in Mexico in March to ease her passage to the U.S. border where she was planning to apply for asylum from political repression in Cuba.
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They worry that escalating political repression and human rights abuses in Egypt are signs of weakness in President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's grip on power, potentially threatening the stability of a key Middle Eastern ally.
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In practice, that has meant a campaign to impose greater discipline in the party's ranks, and political repression outside the party, including a crackdown on activists and more stringent media censorship, including on the internet.
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Taken together, the events escalated the confusion and conflict over who is the rightful president of Venezuela, the oil-rich and formerly prosperous country upended by political repression and severe economic hardship under Mr. Maduro.
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ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna - Basque Country and Freedom) was founded in 1959 and arose from anger and frustration among Basques, who have their own language and culture, from political repression under Spain's ruler, General Francisco Franco.
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the clerical establishment under the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are the enforcers of political repression as well as the beneficiaries of an economy that has underperformed for everyone else.
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BERLIN — If the music of Dmitri Shostakovich chronicles political repression in Stalinist Russia, that of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, his contemporary and close friend, is a testimony to the horror that swept through Europe in the 21th century.
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The government just unveiled the first national monument to the victims of political repression, and the revitalized Gulag History Museum, which moved to a larger building in 2015, has been recording the recollections of remaining survivors.
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There is no explicit mention of the symbiotic relationship between the anti-colonial movements and communism, or of the anti-communist purge and brutal political repression that followed right after some of these countries gained independence.
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Mujtaba al-Sweikat Along with China, Iran, and Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is among the world's leading executioners, often deploying the death penalty as a tool for political repression, but also frequently against those charged with nonviolent offenses.
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Either way, by denying its protagonists the means to fully articulate themselves, the film unwittingly echoes, on an aesthetic level, the political repression they paid dearly for challenging, even while mining the pathos of their marital breakdown.
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The conflicting approaches have played out as President Trump continued to hammer away at the idea that a caravan of people fleeing poverty, violence and political repression presented a threat to the security of the United States.
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In the nineties, Aristide, with U.S. encouragement, disbanded Haiti's Army, known as a corrupt agent of political repression; it was effectively replaced by the U.N. troops who arrived in 2004, and who are still patrolling the streets.
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The Third occupies its own radically free-floating world, and is marked by a melancholy that might reflect Ginastera's decision, in the early seventies, to go into Swiss exile, partly in reaction to political repression at home.
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LIMA (Reuters) - The United States urged regional leaders on Saturday to take stronger steps to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as it joined a declaration condemning the worsening humanitarian crisis and political repression in the South American nation.
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"This 'gang status' is the same political repression used on the Black Panthers and other revolutionary movements in the Bay Area," a spokesperson for It's Going Down, an online hub for antifa, told VICE News in an email.
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High oil prices, in contrast, have correlated with political repression and assertive foreign policy moves in Moscow, from the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to the war in Georgia in 2008 and the intervention in Ukraine in 2014.
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The intensification of political repression has been accompanied by one crisis after another, including an outcry in Italy over the torture and murder of an Italian graduate student, which the Italians believe was carried out by Egyptian security services.
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"The United States is concerned about Cambodian government's continued political repression of former Cambodia National Rescue Party members, including the recent arrests of several former CNRP activists," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on Twitter.
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Human Rights Watch said Vietnam had adopted a strategy of political repression under which it arrests activists on "bogus" charges, jails them for long terms and then offers a "freedom for exile deal" and claims credit for the release.
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Shafak's work has spread around the world despite this attempted censorship, but it hasn't yet reached all its potential American audience — those many readers who might be engrossed by Shafak's unflinching fiction that explores gender, abuse and political repression.
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"We demand that the people who are running the state apparatus stop this legal arbitrariness, end the political repression and start strictly following the norms of the constitution," the academics wrote in the letter, published online by the Troitsky science newspaper.
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Durazo also cited the end of apartheid in South Africa, Spanish efforts to end the ETA conflict and Argentina's so-called Full Stop Law that helped reconcile a society riven by years of political repression, as models to learn from.
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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundians stood in long lines on Thursday to vote in a referendum that could let President Pierre Nkurunziza stay in power to 2034, deepening fears of political repression and ethnic conflict in the heart of Africa's Great Lakes.
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The most likely scenario in Venezuela for the foreseeable future then might be an especially undesirable one to most Venezuelans and the international community: Maduro holding on to power and a continued exodus of migrants fleeing political repression and economic deprivation.
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The satirist, Jan Böhmermann, had earned plaudits but also criticism when, on his TV show two weeks ago, he read a crude poem, which he himself labeled "abusive criticism," and accused Mr. Erdogan of lewd behavior and fierce political repression.
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"Human rights abuses and political repression are driving extremism and terrorism, which are in turn undermining the economy and prospects for a meaningful recovery," Michele Dunne, a Middle East scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said about Egypt.
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This makes denaturalization policy a tool of political repression: Immigrants might not exercise their rights for fear that they will lose them all, or at least be dragged in front of a court and required to pay expensive lawyers' fees.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia lashed out at Canada on Monday for criticizing the recent arrests of Saudi rights activists, and threatened to break off trade with other Western countries if they too spoke out about political repression in the kingdom.
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Puerto Ricans and other Latinos began arriving as farm laborers in the 1940s, followed in the 1980s by Cubans who had come to the United States in the Mariel boatlift, a mass emigration to escape economic hardship and political repression.
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The two administration officials said the United States is also prepared to impose further sanctions on senior officials it accuses of corruption, drug trafficking ties and involvement in what critics see as a campaign of political repression aimed at consolidating Maduro's rule.
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Under Communism, the atypically liberal concessions made to popular opinion by the country's leadership — minimal censorship and political repression, free travel to the West, a restrained version of market capitalism — were termed "Goulash Communism," as a marker of the country's unique political settlement.
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That caravan's unimpeded progress north has resonated deeply in the impoverished countries of Central America, from which hundreds of thousands of people have fled in recent years to escape violence and political repression, as well as poverty exacerbated by drought and crop failures.
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" The Russian president, who ordered the construction of the monument, the "Wall of Sorrow," three years ago, described political repression as a crime, but stressed that future generations should remember the victims without bringing the country to renewed confrontation by "settling scores.
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The mechanisms of political repression are subtle and not always visible in this film, which is drawn from the details of Mr. Ying's own experience and which shows how authoritarianism seeps into and threatens to corrupt the most intimate and ordinary human encounters.
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Natives of Somalia and Ethiopia, they had boarded from the Somali coast — pushed by what they described as a combination of poverty, ambition and political repression back home, and pulled by the mirage of work in the countries of the Persian Gulf.
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Daniel arap Moi, the autocratic president of Kenya from 1978 to 19603, who ruled his East African nation in a postcolonial era of political repression, economic stagnation and notorious corruption, but in the end gave up power peacefully, died on Tuesday in Nairobi.
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For musicians, artists and writers in Brazil, the dictatorship had been a time of extreme political repression, a period known as "vazio cultural" (cultural void), where artists such as Milton Nascimento resorted to recording music without words in order to sidestep censorship.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin on Monday called the unveiling of the first Kremlin-promoted monument to the victims of political repression an important step toward preventing oppression in Russia, but critics accused the government of hypocrisy given the continued lack of political rights.
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At the time, Taiwan was more than a decade into a nearly 40-year period of political repression known as the White Terror, during which the Kuomintang imposed authoritarian rule and arrested and tortured tens of thousands of Taiwanese accused of spying for Communist China.
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Leonid Volkov, a senior aide to Mr. Navalny, described Thursday's raids as an "act of mass political repression" on his Facebook page and said that they signaled a "desperate but hopeless" effort by the authorities to stop future elections from eroding the authority of pro-Kremlin forces.
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"It doesn't feel like the brand is mine," said Bethelihem, who left Eritrea five years ago to get treatment for a kidney problem and never returned - like tens of thousands who flee the tiny Horn of Africa country every year, citing political repression and lengthy military conscription.
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Using sophisticated survey techniques to cut through respondents' fears of political repression, Mr. Dmitriev also predicted after Russia's 2014 military intervention in Ukraine that the resulting patriotic surge would one day calm, allowing latent discontent to revive, particularly in Moscow, where the middle class is concentrated.
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"Famine is elective because, at its core, it is an artifact and a tool of political repression," de Waal wrote in the New York Times: After countries have passed a certain threshold of prosperity and development, peace, political liberalization and greater government accountability are the best safeguards against famine.
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His rule was notable for world-class health care and education, political repression—and marathon speeches, including a record four hours 29 minutes at the UN. Further readingObituary: The life and times of Fidel CastroThe transition to a post-communist Cuba will now begin in earnestThe mood in Havana
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The statement, issued by the State Department last July, is emblematic of Washington's long history of extolling the virtues of free speech as the cornerstone of democracy, as well as its continued condemnation of countries that respond to the peaceful expression of dissent with acts of political repression.
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When white people have not actively worked to create a society fueled by fair play and equal opportunity, they have often ignored the political repression that mobs bent on extra-judicial "justice" achieved -- and the benefits, like power and economic success, they themselves have reaped as a result.
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Nevertheless, its declared platforms offer something that the current regime never could — a firm commitment to a non-nuclear future for Iran, along with an end to the theocratic system and the political repression that make Iran one of the world's worst abusers of human rights and supporters of terrorism.
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One need only recall the abuses of the former Soviet Union or those currently occurring in China or Cuba to realize that improving economic equality does not lead to reducing political repression of free speech or the right to protest or any of the other activities associated with human rights.
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As atrocious as Japan's colonial rule was, had the Kim dynasty, over the past 85033 years, followed Japanese examples in Korea, it may have allowed for any the following: Basic freedoms during the colonial era were trampled upon, and life for most Koreans was marked by extreme economic privation and political repression.
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Interviews with more than a dozen fans and hooligan group members over the past five months have shed light on a wave of arrests and searches that have targeted the most violent fans and their leaders, as the police have turned measures more associated with antiterrorism operations and political repression against the hooligans.
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Freedom House points to Russian President Vladimir Putin as aggressively challenging liberal values at home and among his neighbors, while noting that the ruling Communist Party of China, the most populous nation on the planet, has come to rely on a mix of economic growth and political repression to maintain its grip on power.
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Peacekeepers injured HRW urged the UN to take steps to avert the potential crisis, including denouncing political repression and other serious human rights violations; urging Kabila to stand down as mandated or, if not, to declare a date before the end of 2017 by which he will leave; and imposing sanctions on security and government officials responsible for abuses.
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In the late 1940s, at a time of political repression in Chile that foretells the Pinochet dictatorship — the backdrop of several of Mr. Larraín's earlier films — Neruda, a left-wing senator as well as the unofficial laureate of the Latin American masses, assumes Toni Erdmann-like disguises as he tries to evade a determined policeman played by Gael García Bernal.
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However, in the years leading up to that, Egypt had experienced periodic eruptions of political violence, including protests, strikes, and riots — as well as severe political repression at the hands of the regime — but overall the country was generally more stable and less violent than it is today (though most of the violence in Egypt today comes from the military regime of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi).
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GOALS. In this Audre Lorde autobiography, she combined both myth and personal experiences to talk about the relationships she shared with women that were built off strength, mutual respect, and the fight for survival in the midst of Jim Crow, and political repression during the McCarthy era of the US. Lorde chose to trace her growth through the relationships she had with the women who would ultimately shape her politics.
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