repressive governments

Of course, if you are, say, an activist campaigning against a repressive government, a journalist an intelligence service would like to discredit, or just somebody who would rather not have any jerk with a password looking through your camera roll for nudes, it's not so great. In fact, in terms of expansiveness ...

Of course, if you are, say, an activist campaigning against a repressive government, a journalist an intelligence service would like to discredit, or just somebody who would rather not have any jerk with a password looking through your camera roll for nudes, it's not so great. In fact, in terms of expansiveness ...

And I remember it vividly as thousands of people fled or tried to flee as refugees to escape a ruthless right-wing government repression backed by at least ... and other church-affiliated lay people began appearing dead or disappeared for daring to speak out against the repressive regime, Romero could no ...

Our Founding Fathers of this country had been under a repressive government and when establishing the Constitution of the United States, insisted that certain rights were needed to be in place to protect individual citizens' rights from government, the reason for the first 10 amendments. Our country is now ...

Now a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, Taraciuk Broner was born in Venezuela, but was able to return to Argentina as a young child after the repressive government there was toppled. Today she views her job as helping Venezuelans who have fled their own repressive regime return home ...

(New York) – The Chinese government's repression of political dissent in Tibetan areas warrants fact-finding visits by United Nations human rights experts, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a new compilation of cases and sentences against Tibetans. On February 21, 2018, six UN experts called ...

"Wear the red dress," June says in a haunting voiceover, spelling out the list of commands given to handmaids in this repressive regime where fertile women are kept as sexual slaves. "Wear the wings. Shut your mouth. Be a good girl. Roll over and spread your legs. Yes ma'am. May the Lord open.

'Cambodian Rock Band' in Costa Mesa fuses music with family history – and a brutal, repressive regime ... I wanted to write a play about this dark period in Cambodia's history – about musicians who died because their music was seen by a repressive regime as a threat – but didn't know how to write it.”.

With the notable exception of people suspected of terrorism offences, Britons – although subject to blanket state eavesdropping – are safe from arbitrary arrest, torture or extrajudicial execution. The same cannot be said for the citizens of dozens of states to which Britain is approving the sale of spy ...

With the notable exception of people suspected of terrorism offences, Britons – although subject to blanket state eavesdropping – are safe from arbitrary arrest, torture or extrajudicial execution. The same cannot be said for the citizens of dozens of states to which Britain is approving the sale of spy ...

This brings me to Andrew Sullivan's incisive piece in New York Magazine. Sullivan is basically saying that campus identity politics, once a useful critique for bright young minds to consider, now threatens to become a repressive regime. Like Baldwin, Sullivan understands the anger behind identity politics ...

But the mainstream media seemed to have no reservations about showering compliments on Kim Yo Jong of North Korea, who represented her dictator brother at the winter Olympics in South Korea. North Korea is a prison state where torture and starvation are so prevalent that if the regime falls the world ...

The universal struggle for justice is provoked by an individual's sense of self worth, writes John Lloyd. In China, women calling themselves the “silence breakers” have demanded investigations into allegations of sexual harassment. In doing so, they pit themselves against a macho culture, a Communist ...

Across the country, President Trump's request for a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue has sparked a debate on optics, cost and necessity. But in South Florida, such a show of uniforms, medals and hardware likely will rattle the hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans ...

The order, which applies to all U.S. citizens and other people living in the United States, belongs to a broader package of sanctions the Trump administration has leveled against the repressive regime of Nicolas Maduro in recent months. In February, Maduro launched a version of bitcoin unique to ...

Saudi Arabia and other autocratic regimes with poor human rights records have spent nearly £700,000 in the last five years on luxury trips for MPs, prompting claims that British politicians are being used to the “launder the reputation” of some of the world's most repressive governments, i can reveal.