(g) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

(h) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

(k) To ensure the free exercise of political opposition and to prevent the intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

(a) About the continued use of the criminal justice system to silence political opposition and human rights defenders, including through arbitrary detention, lack of due process and closed political trials of leading opposition figures and human rights defenders

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

Freedom of assembly, speech and the press was non existent and political opposition was strictly prohibited.

(k) To register independent opposition political parties and allow them to participate in the electoral process

If constituents are registering to vote in peaceful political opposition, then that is democracy at work.

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

At the moment, the opposition reflects a large number of fractured and superficially united political parties.

The opposition political parties have not been the only ones affected by obstacles of this type.

Political opposition, a free press and independent institutions of civil society are respected by the Government.

The tendency to use police powers in dealing with political opposition is also a cause for concern.

Chairman of the Front Patriotique pour le Progrès Spokesperson for the group of 11 opposition political parties

In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

(k) The release of political prisoners and the measures taken to allow the return of exiled opposition members

52. Before the parties were officially recognized, opposition political activities were met with substantial resistance from local authorities.

51. Until March 1998, when opposition parties were registered as legal political parties by the Ministry of the Interior, opposition parties were denied their rights under the Cambodian Constitution and international law.

The Government denied its citizens their human rights, and new legal measures monopolized information and obstructed political opposition and democratization.

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully. The joy of opposition is its simplicity

(ii) The restriction of political freedom, in spite of the replacement, in March 2000, of the Political Associations Act of 1998 by the Associations and Political Parties Act and the increased activity by some opposition parties

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Yet the Syrian opposition has so far failed to present itself as a unified actor. This is astonishing, given that highly respected, influential figures and political parties have been speaking for the opposition at international gatherings.

(e) Continuing refusal to permit the registration of opposition political parties, and their consequent inability to participate in the electoral process

The Government of Israel conducted the Gaza withdrawal relatively peacefully and smoothly, with firm determination, in spite of domestic political opposition.

Democratic channels for pursuing legitimate interests and expressing dissent must be protected, and political opposition respected and accommodated in constitutional forms.

Accordingly, the representatives of the opposition hope that such meetings open to political sectors and civil society will take place regularly.

The opposition attempted to execute a new type of coup d'état, corrupting State institutions by using them as instruments of political coercion.

Additional numbers of political figures joined what later became labelled the opposition , which mainly called for a review of Syrian Lebanese relations.

In July, 24 members of an opposition political movement were arrested, reportedly for interfering with the process of election and census registration.

We have begun this phase by conducting a responsible dialogue with all members of the political opposition, who continue to operate freely.

The Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government one urgent appeal on behalf of members of opposition political parties.E CN.4 1997 7

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Outstanding legislation to be considered by Parliament will include laws on the referendum and amnesty, the status of the political opposition, the financing of political parties, the draft Constitution and the electoral law.

(d) About the continuing and expanding criminal prosecutions, lack of due process and closed political trials of leading opposition figures and human rights defenders

During the current mandate period, unyielding pressure towards a military solution between TFG and opposition forces has taken pre eminence over a political solution.

Two cases concerned members of a political opposition party who were reportedly arrested by the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir and later released.

None of the people he spoke with, including representatives of opposition political parties and NGOs, mentioned the existence of such a category of prisoners.

There is an armed political group in eastern Sudan, the Sudan Alliance Forces (SAF), which are allied with the SPLM A under the National Democratic Alliance, an umbrella body of Sudanese political opposition parties.

Forging Syria s Opposition

Malaysia s Opposition Reborn

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully. The joy of opposition is its simplicity Ukrainians understood what we opposed and stood side by side with us.

(g) To investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the mistreatment, arbitrary arrest and incarceration of human rights defenders and members of the political opposition

With the economy in steep decline, Poland s rulers began to seek to stabilize the political system and reestablish relations with the West. In 1986, the government released political prisoners a precondition for talks with the opposition.

Leader of the Opposition