repression

Human rights groups accuse them of systematic repression of peaceful critics with, according to the US state department's most recent assessment, "serious restrictions on freedom of expression" and an "environment of impunity."

More than 200 civil society organisations said on Thursday they were "concerned about a military drift in the country's governance, rather than a search for appeasement and an end to repression".

Kenya’s repression of dissent has raised concerns in Washington.

Uganda’s Idi Amin tried to use boxing and his image as a sportsman to build popularity and distract from his regime’s repression in the 1970s.

Given the heightened tension in the strip and Hamas’s brutal repression of opposition, I knew what complying with the gunmen meant: I would be lucky to leave only with broken bones that night.