These rights, broadly recognized as both civil individual and political rights, might be misused by States to suppress political dissent.

This spring marks the third anniversary of the wave of repression in which Fidel Castro s regime arrested and handed down long sentences to 75 leading Cuban dissidents. Soon afterwards, many friends and I formed the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba.

(ii) Harsh military suppression of dissent combined with sweeping special emergency powers

Recognizing the enormous responsibility of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for having left in the Indian subcontinent traditions of

154. This steady deterioration of the principle of legality eventually leads to a veritable transformation of the rule of law, whereby the state of emergency degenerates into a factor of escalation of the crisis and becomes an instrument for repressing the opposition and dissenters.

24. During 1996 the policy of repression against opponents and dissidents has been characterized by less blatant, but no less real activity.

(a) The persistence of a governmental policy based on the repression of all political opposition activities

Repression of political dissent, executions, torture and discrimination against women and minorities had continued with impunity and the Iranian authorities had ignored the recommendations of the Working Group against Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

Several authors hold a different view.

Other figures for the same time period illustrate the regressive nature of the French immigration policy.

Following the introduction of democratic changes in the early 1990s, no systematic repression of dissidents has been reported and a wide variety of human rights groups are generally permitted to conduct their activities.

The national security law has so far produced a large number of prisoners of conscience, including long term political prisoners, and is still being used as a panacea to suppress the non violent political activities of dissidents and organizations, including Manchongryon , the South Korean student organization.

For more than three decades, Indonesian reformists struggled against the crushing weight of an authoritarian regime, until it became clear that our only way out of the Asian crisis was through democratic reform.

Repression must not be the price paid for development.

Rebellion against suppression.

Parliamentary democracy was introduced in Bangladesh in 1991 and since then no systematic oppression of dissenters has been reported.

Its destruction allegedly reflected a policy of repression directed against the Muslim community.

But the fact that those dictators suppressed democracy in their country and suppressed Islamic groups in their country actually made the Islamists much more strident.

TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls iPod liberalism the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.

(a) The persistence of a governmental policy based on the repression of all political opposition activities

Hold up that train and then meet me at Hot Springs.

Police use them to detect and repress dissidents. Either way, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google make money  just like, say, IBM, which in the 1930 s sold its computing machines to the Nazi regime the Nazis used these machines to make the destruction of their victims routine and bureaucratic.

Police use them to detect and repress dissidents. Either way, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google make money just like, say, IBM, which in the 1930 s sold its computing machines to the Nazi regime the Nazis used these machines to make the destruction of their victims routine and bureaucratic.

The language used made it appear that his Government had acted against peaceful demonstrators.

The Government's response to the insurrection was ruthless and disproportionate.

Press censorship, repression of dissent, and the absence of organized opposition allow rulers the luxury of promising whatever they want, with no political consequences for failing to deliver. The result is government of the sloganeers, by the sloganeers, and for the sloganeers.

And because many of our governments are quite dictatorial, they need really to have the army clobber the opposition.

Torture and arbitrary arrests continued to be reported, particularly targeting political opponents.

According to reliable reports, leaders of dissident factions in conjunction with other Congolese dissidents have held operational meetings in Uganda and Rwanda for the purpose of resisting the transition and peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The dissident factions have a pool of potential candidates to recruit from.

And occurrences of civil war and repression have declined since the end of the Cold War.

60. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has consistently denied all allegations about involvement in such murders of Iranian dissidents abroad.

The very nature of the State impedes various freedoms such as expression belief opinion, since political dissidents are not tolerated and are punished severely.

Repressive legislation should be repealed.

The United States was also deeply concerned about the harassment of journalists and non governmental groups and called upon the Government to stop its repression.

The Government has used mass arrests to quell the civil unrest in Karachi.

The Armenians grossly violated the rights of Azerbaijanis, made it difficult for them to be educated in their mother tongue, and pursued a policy of repression.

There was agreement that there should be a balance between repressive and preventive action.

While taking note of reports of international human rights organizations denouncing an administrative practice of torture and other forms of ill treatment of political dissidents and the Uzbek regime's repressive policy towards such dissidents, the Court furthermore stated that, although those findings described the general situation in Uzbekistan, they did not support the specific allegations made by the applicants in the case and required corroboration by other evidence.

It'll end in ruthless repression!

And we can organize to overcome oppression by opening our hearts as well as strengthening this incredible resolve.

Many previous revolutions have deposed one set of corrupt rulers only to bring in a new bunch who are equally corrupt, vicious, and repressive. There is also no guarantee that the previous elites will not be able to re constitute similar regimes.

The dissenting members also referred to the unfair advantage such an approach conferred on persons who circumvented immigration requirements over those who had not.

It was deeply disturbed, however, by the intolerance of freedom of speech and by the harsh sentences which continued to be meted out to dissidents.

If unaddressed, the repression could have implications for regional stability.