The change of government in the Maldives presents a huge opportunity to break with the repression and human rights violations of the past and chart a fresh course where human rights are at the heart of the policies and action of the new government, Amnesty International said today. The 23 September 2018 presidential election saw the defeat of President Abdulla Yameen to the Joint Opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Abdulla Yameen’s rule was marked by attacks on civil society, media wor...
a repressive government that’s been described as the “North Korea of Africa.” Some allege that proceeds from festivals might support the government. Hundreds of thousands of people...
[the government] do about people simply making fun of the horrible capital city roads? They’d have looked stupid had they tried to use violence on us. Humour is powerful in repressive...
Korean 포럼에서 "repressive"과의 토론을 찾을 수 없습니다. ; coercive / repressive apparatus - English Only forum ; inevitably repressive screen against - English Only forum ; repressive/surpressive - English Only forum
The recent talks with North Korea have brought renewed attention to that nation — and to the extremely repressive nature of its government. By any measure, North Korea is one of the most repressive…
Venezuelan government has become one of the world's cruelest... Because food lines have paradoxically given the government... When oil prices were high, from 2004 to 2013, the government...
After years of repressive government and economic collapse, many Venezuelans think this weekend’s election might be different.
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Like so many aspects of life, democratic debate is increasingly moving online. Yet it seems that every time citizens adopt a new digital tool or enter a new digital space to voice opposition, repressive governments respond with a whole arsenal of methods to dampen dissent and deny the right to opinion and expression. For every new activist tactic, the state comes up with three or four countermeasures. Research by a new network of African digital rights researchers, activists and analysts has fou...
Activists and dissidents in exile across the world are being targeted by their repressive home governments, which are using increasingly aggressive tactics, including in the US, according to a new report. Pro-democracy think tank and watchdog Freedom House said in a report published on Thursday that they registered 85 new incidents of “public, direct, physical incidents of transnational repression” last year. Between 2014 and the end of 2021, the total number of such incidents was 735. The w...