repressive

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For journalists, activists and citizens living in repressive regimes, VPNs are a critical tool for secure communication and access to information.

From Salon

García Harfuch descends from a line of prominent government officials, their careers reflecting, in part, Mexico’s past under a repressive, authoritarian government.

From Los Angeles Times

Mamdani seems to have deftly prevented such repressive actions against his city, at least for a while.

From Salon

Since the early 2000s, asylum seekers from Chechnya have been coming to Europe - fleeing first the war and later Kadyrov's repressive rule.

From BBC

In Nicaragua, another Central American nation where democratic institutions have come under assault, most of the staff of La Prensa, a newspaper that has published articles challenging the increasingly repressive government, has left the country.

From New York Times