repression
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He and fellow student Valentina Scaloni, 24, don't agree with the principle of US intervention but feel it was necessary to achieve freedom after years of repression by the government.
From BBC
The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran has said the war in the Middle East is likely to result in worsening institutionalised domestic repression of Iranian citizens.
From Barron's
At around $2,000 on Iran's black market, the terminals are expensive and very rare in poorer regions like Balochistan or Kurdistan that have suffered the most government repression, Alimardani said.
From Barron's
Anna Kwok of the Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council, another bountied dissident, has warned that Beijing can use these diplomatic outposts to carry out transnational repression in the U.S.
Iranian authorities have a formidable internal security apparatus, numbering an estimated "850,000 agents of repression", Pierre Razoux, director of studies at the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies, told French lawmakers on Wednesday.
From Barron's
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