| 单词 | repressive |
| 例句 | “It seems very unlikely, Harry,” said Hermione in a repressive sort of voice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But the hard facts were that fifty years of nonviolence had brought the African people nothing but more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The raid cast a shadow over my last day in Cape Town, for it signaled the first move in the state’s new and even more repressive strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Oh no, really?” said Hermione, shooting a repressive look at Ron, who, staring at Hagrid’s odd hairstyle, had just opened his mouth to say something about it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Residents recognized that Oldham’s repressive policies were the work of a Bourbon mind, one which sought at every turn to deny black tenants their dignity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet, the Bantu Authorities Act would replace it with an even more repressive system: a feudalistic order resting on hereditary and tribal distinctions as decided by the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More repressive laws designed to suppress black anger sailed through Parliament with little opposition; more black informants were recruited to report on events in the ghettos. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Isn't the administration aware that if they continue these repressive policies, all the best students will desert the school faster than rats from a sinking ship? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence the perceived need for repressive management and intrusive measures like drug and personality testing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, Hawaiian history was repeatedly punctuated by revolts against repressive chiefs, usually led by younger brothers promising less oppression. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The attention comes as his portraits of Russia as a decaying former empire that’s sliding backward under a militaristic, violent and repressive regime have come to seem tragically prescient. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z China today is more repressive than at any time since the early 1990s, says Mr Shambaugh, bringing the country close to falling apart. Chronicle of a death foretold 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z As the repressive Chinese government does severe damage control in the wake of the experiment, Dr. He’s fate hangs in the balance. ‘Make People Better’ Review: Clear Science, Confusing Storytelling 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The Victorian period," Zvulun explains, "was, I think, a time when people led a very repressive existence, and so it fits with the pressures society exerted on the unfortunate Lucia. Preview: Seattle Opera stages 'Lucia di Lammermoor' 2010-10-07T18:42:00Z It is there in the music, of course, but also in a personal presentation only marginally less startling and radical today than it would have been in the repressive and homophobic America of the 1950s. No Prince Without the King 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Clark argues that the repressive strictures in place productively challenged Kuniyoshi’s creative resourcefulness, forcing him to find ways to veil criticism of the shogunate allegorically. Art Review: At Japan Society, Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2010-04-15T21:23:00Z Barry had been jailed in Harare just months after we arrived and charged with the crime of “committing journalism” by the repressive government. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Among other things, it's about an unjust social system yoked to a repressive society that is morally and physically disintegrating, though no one's prepared to confront it. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z But Donohue's novel suggests that the 19th century, with its emerging mass media and its repressive attitude to women's bodies, can be reimagined to shed light on our own time. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Some believers felt offended, while other Russians have been angered by what they see as repressive treatment for the expression of political beliefs. Verdict in Russian punk trial set for Aug. 17 2012-08-08T11:59:11Z As a design objective, that now feels old hat and even, perhaps, a little repressive. London: Body Snatchers 2010-02-23T19:55:00Z So is U.S. support for repressive foreign regimes, as well as the destabilizing impact of many of the nation’s overt and covert overseas interventions. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Five years after he founded Cloud Gate, Taiwan emerged from nearly four decades of repressive martial law. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Like all Gilbert & Sullivan works, “The Mikado” lies somewhere between the poles of European opera and the American musical, and lampoons the repressive, nepotistic ordering of British society. An Asian-American Reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z But Lachman realized that the grain also brought “tension to the surface of the image,” paralleling the repressive qualities of the characters in both “Mildred Pierce” and “Carol.” Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Seen through another lens, however, there are downsides, including the potential for culturally specific films to reinforce repressive attitudes toward men, women and sexual autonomy, not to mention sexual orientation. Love is all around, and rom-coms are, too 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But she is beseeching him to speak out clearly against repressive policies, trusting that the Maduro government would not dare move against such a celebrated and influential Venezuelan. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z “It’s such a repressive image,” Mr. Cave said, adding that it was the element of fruitless loyalty that bothered him the most. The Artist Nick Cave Gets Personal About Race and Gun Violence 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z THE Arab spring unleashed more than hopes for change in one of the world’s most politically repressive regions. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z This does not mean, however, that all reforms are inherently repressive or self-defeating. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Jupiter’s mother hustles her into steerage and they end up in Chicago, where she works as a housecleaner and lives under the yoke of a repressive extended family. "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Lines from whose memories of a more repressive era? Quiz: Banned books 2010-09-27T07:31:00Z It’s both incomprehensible and indecent for an American institution that operates free of government restraint to defer to the judgment of repressive regimes. What Movies to See This December 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z And Broadway dancers, many trained in a system even more repressive than the theater’s, have traditionally been expected to perform like robots, retire early and shut up in between. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Queerness has found ways to survive in some of the most repressive areas of the country for decades, often by living a kind of double life. The red state gay porn habit: Why conservative states like Mississippi and North Carolina lead the nation in same-sex porn consumption 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z This implicit but clear parallel to the repressive turn taken by revolutionary Cuba is one of many in Padura’s book. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Helen, having survived traumas in her native China, now lives in Chinatown with her large and repressively traditional family. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s This polemic can be seen as the product of a man “warped,” perhaps equally, by both his own dyspeptic personality and the repressive times in which he lived. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z She busts out her martial arts to free her sister from the repressive patriarchal demands Salim's family. Teen girls are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore on screen 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z He noted that Stalin’s regime was equally repressive to independent national movements and to freethinking institutions like Vkhutemas. At Cooper Union, a Russian Design Show Caught in a Political Crossfire 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But his biggest beef is with America’s culture, which he calls repressive and believes is split between a politically correct left and religious right. He?s Only Just Begun to Fight 2011-04-13T22:52:55Z He said in a statement that he sees the band as playing a vital part in "the resistance to a regime that is both repressive and brutal." Waters: Band can rewrite Pink Floyd song as anthem 2010-08-11T01:48:00Z Kundera saw sex as an act of redemption and of liberation under repressive regimes, but his obsession came back to haunt him. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Despite such evidence of what, for a repressive country, constitutes fashion experimentation, uniforms were ubiquitous. Decoding Dress in North Korea 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Scores of journalists were captured by repressive regimes. How to stop the bleeding 2012-05-30T00:00:00Z In some ways, it’s a familiar tale: a lone radical’s picaresque journey through a repressive society ripe for revolution. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 The film’s supporting roles are sympathetic considering how easily authority figures, whether parents or doctors, could have been portrayed as the repressive enemies of free expression. Review: ‘Touched With Fire,’ a Love Story Between Two Bipolar Poets 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In her opening statement, read out by defense lawyer Violetta Volkova, Samutsevich said she saw the prosecution as "the start of a campaign of authoritarian, repressive measures aimed to ... spread fear among politically active citizens." Russia's "Pussy Riot" on trial for cathedral protest 2012-07-30T11:20:12Z The surge in Chinese collecting is not just a reflection of new wealth, experts say, but also a reaction to the repressive Mao years when the country was denied culture. Chinese Art Collectors Prove to Be a New Market Force 2011-09-06T21:55:05Z By many accounts, China is in the throes of a sexual revolution, its people having shed the bonds of repressive Confucian values for a period of remarkable openness. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z When they change into gray jumpsuits about midway through, we are reminded how often dreams of revolution have ended in repressive regimes. ‘The Beautiful Lady’ Review: A Cabaret for the New Order 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps Bartok’s Judith, at the mercy of a violent new husband, is here a grown-up version of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, at the mercy of a repressive father. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Over the years he lent passionate support to the antiwar movement, to freedom of expression in repressive countries, to environmental causes and civil rights. Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z "The history debate was frozen and overshadowed by nostalgia for the repressive dictatorship, driven by its successors." Bulgaria opening museum of socialist art 2011-08-24T15:01:04Z Few people realise that there is a repressive dictatorship right in the middle of Europe. Natalia Kaliada: 'In Belarus it's very simple – everything's repressed' 2012-06-02T23:05:29Z Or, to be exact, with the repressive Pentecostal church in California he was raised in. Review: 'The Thin Place' at Intiman ruminates on religion, lost and found 2010-05-24T23:08:00Z After more than three decades under the repressive dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Madrid is torn between the long-lasting trauma of violence and the lingering desire for freedom. Spain’s Javier Marías captures his nation’s long-lasting trauma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In this parable of Colombian society, naked humans are violently subjugated and imprisoned by clothed ones in a strange, repressive world. Newly Published, From a Naked Humans Society to Kyoto Travels 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He is her master, as Italians were for a time masters of Ethiopia, ruling it with a brutal, repressive hand. She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The first book in Collins' teen/young-adult trilogy, which portrays the cruel Hunger Games run by the repressive dictators of Panem, formerly the United States. 10 most-in-demand books at King County library 2011-12-05T01:33:04Z By orchestrating this immoral deal he is giving legitimacy to one of the world's most repressive regimes. Prince Charles criticised over Bahrain housing deal 2013-05-14T18:59:14Z While Lo herself was unavailable for comment, an online petition has attracted a large number of comments criticising Singapore's repressive laws. Sticker Lady faces three years in Singapore jail 2012-06-09T23:07:02Z It’s easy to see why the repressive theocracy in Iran took exception to this movie. ‘Chess of the Wind’ Review: A Remnant of an Iran That Used to Be 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z This repressive attitude risks producing yet more trauma when the harsh reality is finally exposed. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z Earlier in the season, he had defied Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime with a staging of his own opera “The Red Heifer,” a sardonic indictment of modern Hungarian anti-Semitism. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z This is the most personal or revealing film the shy Lucas has ever made, a grim parable about a romantic rebel in a regimented and repressive future society. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “Revolutions, if they are to be successful,” Mr. Dobson writes, “require planning, preparation, and an intelligent grasp of how to anticipate and outwit a repressive regime that thinks of little beyond preserving its own power.” Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z In its parade of ribald gags and infantile preoccupation with body parts, not to mention a climactic decapitation, water-balloon-style, The Interview displays all the mindless excesses that repressive regimes condemn in Hollywood movies. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The film “Blue Jean” sets its story in this repressive period. ‘Blue Jean’ Review: No Privacy in the Girls’ Locker Room 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z With his friends seeming to have no memory of their real lives, Jughead must find his way back to the present day to save them while navigating a repressive, conformist world. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The story is set in a not-too-distant future in which the banking system has collapsed, leading to one family fleeing the repressive authorities for a French refugee camp. Longlist released for 2013 Guardian children's fiction prize 2013-06-03T08:57:35Z Johnson plays Ren, the rabble-rousing city kid transplanted to a repressive, conservative town where all the teens just happen to have the moves of members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Review | You’ll groove to the pop hits in this stage revival of ‘Footloose.’ And nothing else. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Au knows all about being banned: he is one of the five co-directors of Ten Years, a politically uncompromising dystopian tale which imagines Hong Kong under an ever-more repressive regime. 'No ghosts. No gay love stories. No nudity': tales of film-making in China 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Keshavarz uses a trowel to feed us her ideas about living under a repressive regime when all you required was a teaspoon. Circumstance – review 2012-08-23T21:00:02Z Its report says scientific evidence on repressive drug policies is wanting. Medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The couple, who are in an open relationship, deny the allegation, likening it to the denunciations that led to mass imprisonments in the repressive Soviet era. Russian 'scrotum protest' artist seeks asylum in France 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Saudi Arabia remains one of the world’s most repressive countries for women, where a man’s consent is obligatory for women to access human rights, and feminist activists risk arrest. How cycling is keeping the fight for women’s rights moving in Saudi Arabia 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z With Egypt considered a cultural center in the Middle East, other regimes have followed the country's repressive polices. Egypt: First the government, next the arts? 2011-02-14T02:35:00Z “Lady Macbeth” survived a period in which culture became the very thing that its heroine so shockingly resisted: mind-numbing, repressive parochialism. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z She kept her close because she didn’t want to grow old alone, but also to protect her daughter from being in a marriage as repressive and miserable as her own was.” ‘Grey Gardens’ the musical coming to ACT Theatre 2013-03-14T20:59:07Z More recently you have been the leading American booster of the Belarus Free Theater, a dissident company working under unimaginably repressive circumstances in that former Soviet republic. Ben Brantley on Shutting the Stage Door Behind Him 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The concept staging makes good sense and is carried through: it fashions the court from which the principle characters are banished as a repressively Puritan society. Get thee to Vancouver, B.C., for Bard on the Beach 2011-09-07T20:33:06Z They are in a position to extend what you might call repressive tolerance. Garrison Keillor v August Kleinzahler 2011-04-10T21:29:05Z These are stern folk, wearing drab attire that brings to mind the repressive culture of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Restorative Power of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “For the state to sustain itself, there must be some repressive force that it manages and controls,” he explained. Brazil’s Jaw-Dropping Corruption Scandal Comes to Netflix 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The original book portraying the cruel Hunger Games run by the repressive dictators of Panem, which used to be the United States. 10 books most-often borrowed from King County Library in 2010 2010-12-18T01:25:21Z HBO’s “The Plot Against America” is based on Philip Roth’s novel that posits a repressive 1930s U.S. government led by Charles Lindbergh, the real-life aviation hero and anti-Semitic isolationist. Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Ruta Sepetys’s latest historical Y.A. novel, “I Must Betray You,” follows the life of a teenager who is blackmailed to become an informer for a repressive Communist regime. ‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z He set out to encompass philosophical themes and even political themes, however unpalatable these might have been to the authorities in the repressive Vienna of his day. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He was an ambitious, driven writer, largely self- and home-educated because of a painful spinal deformation, and because the repressive legislation against Catholics at the time denied him access to a university. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z He softened some of his more repressive policies and retreated from the harshest form of socialism. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z There’s a repressive government agency and a violent rebellion. Review: ‘ETLE and the Anders’ Is a Sarah A.O. Rosner Take on Feminism 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z However repressive and disastrous the social order may have been, something that the movie intimates, the state-run film industry did have its triumphs. Welcome to His World: Bela Tarr’s First Meteorological Event 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z But he ran the risk because he believes that it is possible for people in repressive regimes to enjoy art, regardless of circumstances. Amor Towles: A gentleman in New York 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “At the same time it’s a political statement, a symbol of resistance against a repressive government. It’s a way of stating, ‘I’m going to push back.’” Beyond ‘Queer’ Fashion 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This would seem to imply, not very surprisingly, that although Stalin is long dead, his repressive spirit lives on in contemporary Russia. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z There, we see college-age Faye leaving her repressive home in Iowa for the wilds of Chicago just before the Democratic Convention. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Q:How are the mirthless leaders of China’s repressive, totalitarian Communist regime exactly like readers of American newspapers? A wonton abuse of power 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Loosed from whatever remained of broadcast network restrictions when she was at ABC, the sex scenes here are plentiful and steamy, stoked by the culture’s repressive facades. Review | In ‘Bridgerton,’ Shonda Rhimes stakes a sumptuous, provocative claim on Netflix — and the traditional period drama 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Crisp marches along the perimeter evoke both fashion shows and repressive regimes: The oppression suggested by the piece is as much about standards of beauty and sexual violence as totalitarianism. Carmina Slovenica Sings the Haunting ‘Toxic Psalms’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The word “totalitarian” is usually reserved for the most repressive regimes, like North Korea or Hitler’s Germany. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Marriage is, like, totally lame and repressive, goes the argument, no matter how many mushrooms the kooky couple gobbled on their honeymoon. ‘Mark, Mary & Some Other People’ Review: Till Death Do They Waffle 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The Vice crew once again could hardly believe its fortune when Rodman ended up befriending Kim Jong-Un, the recently installed supreme leader of the world's most repressive regime, and now, apparently a basketball fan. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z The movie depicts early-’80s Taiwan as a repressive police state in which pro-independence demonstrations were brutally crushed and torture used. Movie Review | 'Formosa Betrayed': When the Language of Diplomacy Includes ?Kapow!? 2010-02-25T23:46:00Z Another theme the film explores is the repressive effect of mandatory minimum sentencing which has left many thousands locked up for shockingly long periods for sometimes minor crimes. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z "You have a regime that is super secretive and totally repressive, so making a film like that is a dicey call at best, I'd say," said Dixon, a film historian. Hack attack over Sony's 'Interview' shows risks of naming bad guys 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It started with liberation, but it became a bit repressive in some areas. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z The Medicis' power – spiritual, cultural and economic – is in dramatic decline and the court to which Zumbo is summoned is a savagely repressive one. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z And there was: a brutally repressive military dictatorship. Movie Review: ‘The Chilean Building,’ Directed by Macarena Aguiló 2012-08-12T22:09:37Z As much as “Red Clocks” is about the repressive legal proposals that threaten women’s lives in America, the novel is equally astute on the cultural constraints that women contend with — and enforce on each other. Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z If Reagan was so interested in seeing democracy flourish in the Caribbean, Lorde wondered, why did the U.S. government support Haiti’s Jean-Claude Duvalier and his repressive regime? Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The frozen landscape mirrored a repressive political regime. Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Publishing its report on the eve of a special session of the United Nations devoted to illegal narcotics, it urges a complete reversal of the repressive policies imposed by most governments. Medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Those concerns were always going to be on a collision course with Stewart’s application of inquisitive skepticism to, say, the problematic repressive policies of a certain Asian superpower. It was inevitable that Apple would have a problem with "The Problem with Jon Stewart" 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The repressive mechanism is, of course, the cop, who, in his inebriation, the drunk mistakes for a helper, and from whom the cop asks for and receives the truth. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z Ottinger’s leap of absurdity is as much an expression of the tangle of confusion into which women are driven as it is an explosion of pent-up defiance at a repressively rational order. Style as Women’s Freedom: The Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Far from being repressive authoritarians, Prohibition's largely Protestant champions – a large proportion of whom were high-minded middle-class women – were the do-gooders of the day. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z His family fled the war-torn and repressive country in a handmade boat with 117 people on board and were rescued at sea by a Danish freighter. Review | At the Guggenheim, a memoir about America, colonialism and desire 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The attempt to be both piously respectful of a foreign culture and to stand up for sexual liberation against repressive tradition may be admirable in principle, but in practice it’s silly and strained. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z "I think basically in patriarchal systems, repressive systems, what else was there for them to do? They couldn't make a living." Why play Big Edie in the 'Grey Gardens' musical? Betty Buckley loves 'raw, naturalistic' characters 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z From the 1960s onward, parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe were in comparable states of political turmoil, under repressive governments, with avant-garde art under fire. Review: ‘Transmissions’ at MoMA Explores an Era When Art Upended Tradition 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Metal, often derided and dismissed, is a rich resource for anyone who wants to transgress repressive norms. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z This Al-Jazeera report goes inside Ethiopia, one of the most repressive places for journalists. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Killing bin Laden 2013-05-05T17:00:00Z The blame falls squarely on the Castro brother's regime - a cruel, repressive, and totalitarian, communist dictatorship. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z A surprise Bafta nominee this year, the film was equally difficult to make: those same repressive conditions meant Gharavi had to film secretly and smuggle her footage out of Iran. This week's new film events 2013-06-15T05:00:18Z The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z This kind of super-duper robo-mothering is creepy: repressive – not just to our children, who become soft, spoilt and entitled – but, no less importantly, to ourselves? Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z Those who write about social and environmental problems, especially when they are living in repressive regimes where they risk — and often lose — their lives. How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The country's repressive president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, blocked the website of a Lebanese newspaper that published cables about his regime. WikiLeaks: Tunisia knew its rulers were debauched. But leaks still had impact 2011-02-02T19:59:00Z The question of whether a person can buy into a repressive regime and still retain her humanity hangs over this film but is left unexplored. Movie Review: A Fake Danish Comedy Troupe Goes To North Korea, With Strange Results 2010-12-28T22:46:46Z While Garstka’s rebellion was against a system that most Germans now look on as a grimly repressive regime, he says young people today remain rebellious and always will. Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z So much of the point of "Game of Thrones" is that these kind of medievalist ideas about leadership aren't just repressive, but ineffective. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But a free Palestine was deemed a threat to other repressive states and they all, along with Israel, conspired not to allow it to be born. After Tunisia: Raja Shehadeh on Palestine 2011-01-28T13:00:03Z Human Rights Watch calls Turkmenistan "one of the world's most repressive countries". Jennifer Lopez sparks controversy with show for Turkmenistan president 2013-06-30T15:17:54Z According to Human Rights Watch, Turkmenistan is “one of the world’s most repressive countries.” J. Lo in Turkmenistan: How Celebs End Up Performing for Tyrants 2013-07-01T17:00:51Z Soon, the country was alight with protest, and the government grew increasingly repressive. Mario Benedetti’s Wise, Lonely Novel about Political Exile 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet the current of liberation in Iran was soon cut; the regime became increasingly repressive and imposed religious law stringently, including on the cinema. The Paradox at the Heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z But the foundation show really belongs to Shchukin, and not just as a sentimental tribute to a cultural figure only recently emerging from repressive Soviet fogs. A Bridge from Moscow to Paris: 130 Works of Modern Art 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The book reflected that: It chronicled her annoyances and our bitter fights, not to mention her three-month guerrilla campaign against what she viewed as a repressive Dutch classroom. Great Draft, Dad. I Have Some Notes. 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The other medium that dominated the repressive post-Tiananmen period was the human body, often nude. From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z "Wadjda" tells the story of a free-spirited girl in a repressive country who wants to engage in the quiet protest of buying a bike. Malala Yousafzai: The Nobel Peace Prize winner's movie connection 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “Just one file cabinet,” he says, “containing certain files indicative of our government’s repressive detainment policies. It’ll be explosively symbolic!” ‘The Muscles in Our Toes’ Follows Friends on a Mission 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It is also being watched by the repressive regimes of the world who have long declared the U.S. had no authority to tell them how to respect human rights while Guantanamo and illegal detention persisted. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Chinese Buddhists, even in repressive times, hung on to objects with symbols of their faith, especially lotuses, which represent souls rising out of murkiness to enlightenment. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z He got it simply from living a life as a poor Galilean peasant enthralled to this enormously wealthy, repressive and political authority. “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z The bunker sits two levels beneath a lavish villa in an upmarket neighborhood in Bucharest, Ceausescu's private residence through the 24 years he ruled Romania, one of Eastern Europe's most repressive Cold War-era regimes. Ceausescu's bunker offers a window into Romania's communist past 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z While Garstka’s rebellion was against a system that most Germans now look on as a grimly repressive regime, he says young people today remain rebellious and always will. Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The repressive governments of those imagined hellscapes are marked, primarily, not by their vast deception but by their absolute order. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The Czech composer’s portrayal of a sensitive young woman desperately in need of an escape route from her repressive surroundings contains all the ingredients for a searing music drama. Review: A searing ‘Katya Kabanova’ on the Seattle Opera stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z His depiction of children subject to draconian rules morphed into a large-scale challenge to the repressive deployment of tradition and law. The Paradox at the Heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Still more damningly, to my mind, Mendelsohn claimed that the novel was, in its way, “regressive and repressive,” portraying a world in which gay people were “eventually punished for finding happiness.” Hanya Yanagihara’s “Sex and the City” 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z To the degree that “Mad Men” has championed anything, it has been cities and the social values that even in repressive times metropolitan life is fluid enough to accommodate. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It's a slow, moody piece that uses vampire mythology as a way to explore feminine empowerment in a repressive culture. Home entertainment: 'Alone at Night' ranks as a true vampire original 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z So it is with Andrew Hilton's commanding production of Richard II, which opens as repressive regimes are feeling the force of popular revolt in Tunisia, Egypt and beyond. Richard II ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:29Z They made no bones about the sclerotic state of the small Maghreb country, widely considered one of the most repressive in a repressive region. WikiLeaks: Tunisia knew its rulers were debauched. But leaks still had impact 2011-02-02T19:59:00Z Many of the September 11 hijackers were from repressive societies with high unemployment rates, the film says, including Hani Hanjour. Tribeca film explores al Qaeda's history and culture 2010-04-24T21:18:00Z The tone is stark throughout, and the clanging bells that signal the final call to arms unnervingly recall the repressive imperial paraphernalia of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. BBCSO/Metzmacher – review 2013-05-27T16:00:46Z The story of a lovelorn computer hacker/revolutionary on the run from a repressive Middle Eastern state. Lit Life: Books by local authors have Expo publishers excited 2012-05-25T22:12:03Z There have been complaints that both America and the rest of the world are being given an unduly rosy portrait of a repressive behemoth. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z One of them was Melinda Michels, 49, the director of the Emergency Assistance Program at Freedom House, a program in Washington that supports human rights defenders who are targeted by repressive governments. Before They Wed, They Dated in Bahia, Dublin, Bangkok, Cape Town and Tulum 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z And there is no doubt that in the brutally repressive, creatively stifling period of Soviet history in which Yakobson lived and worked, he was an artist of rare courage and astonishing self-belief. Review: ‘Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z She takes no joy in her children, snapping at them to behave and thoughtlessly passing on her own repressive conditioning, like when she shuts down her daughter’s grief at her beloved grandfather’s death. Why "Mad Men" is bad for women 2010-07-23T11:01:00Z India’s repressive rule there has ensured that the dispute remains unresolved. Divide and rue 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “He is not what he pretends to be. Warhol is not supremely aloof and indifferent, but, rather, deeply committed and surprisingly sophisticated concerning the repressive society.” Think You Know Andy Warhol? Here Are Five Truths That May Surprise 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Both are set in a dystopian future where handsome young dudes lead the charge against a repressive order. The Pop Musical: Go Big (and Loud) or Go Home 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z On the other hand, we have won … The system cannot conceal the repressive nature of this trial. Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups 2012-12-20T18:35:44Z The reference is to a caste of slave soldiers who rose to power in Egypt and Syria in the mid-13th century, and lingered as an exclusive and repressive ruling class for 500 years. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s the tale of a young woman — played by Ms. Slinger — brought as a bride to a crumbling country estate, where she undergoes a grueling battle with a repressive patriarchy and her own fears. Art In Review: PENNY SLINGER: ‘An Exorcism Revisited, 1977-2012’ 2012-09-13T21:04:50Z The new season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” will focus on June’s struggle against the repressive regime of Gilead, Hulu said in a release. Resistance is key as ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ returns for season 3 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Observers say much of it stems from its portrayal of a time when the middle class could live comfortably and security was provided, even if it was through the might of a politically repressive regime. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z He confronts the repressive mechanism, his true antagonist. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z Will Geer, a blacklisted actor who later portrayed Grandpa Walton on the TV drama "The Waltons," played the repressive sheriff. 5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z No real surprise to learn that Trinity's house offers a repressive regime: kids in fear, locks on the daughter's room, a homemade coffin in the basement. Tonight's TV highlights: The Culture Show 2010-10-14T23:04:00Z Now the surreal urban landscape houses the visual tropes of modern African life within an aesthetic imported from early-twentieth-century Europe, all of it presided over by the country’s repressive single-party government. The Timeworn Beauty of Asmara, Eritrea 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z But to keep it going, one must also have an organized bureaucracy that establishes a set of repressive procedures that are formalized in law and enforced by an institutional power. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z Here, talk about “sustainability,” “transparency” and, this year, “mindfulness” coexists with speeches by leaders from some of the most repressive regimes in the world. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, ‘Sustainability,’ ‘Mindfulness’ and Cocktails 2014-01-24T22:19:50Z A piercing tragedy with Kafkaesque political overtones, it addressed the universal plight of stateless refugees from repressive regimes. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z The plays of Shakespeare, understood as the works of an aristocrat, offered Looney a guide for a wished-for restoration of a repressive feudal regime, in which everyone knew his or her place. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Lauck traces the birth of this condescension to the 1920s, when writers and critics began to attack life in the Midwest as narrow-minded and repressive. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Drama in which teenage siblings flee from repressive Tehran to chilly Newcastle. World War Z, Before Midnight, Spike Island: this week's new films 2013-06-22T05:00:13Z As Luke and Ryan grew up, Lance’s repressive nature became more obvious. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z It gradually emerges that Mario was once part of a brutally repressive auxiliary police force in Paris made up of Algerian Harkis sympathetic to the French occupation of Algeria. A Comic Book Artist Who Makes the Invisible Visible 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Initially welcoming the revolution, he returned to Iran while the family remained in Britain, only to incur the wrath of the ayatollah's repressive new regime. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z Sting, criticized for performing in 2009 in Uzbekistan which is widely regarded as one of the most repressive countries to emerge from the Soviet Union, described the treatment of the Kazakh workers as "unacceptable." Sting cancels Kazakh concert over oil worker dispute 2011-07-03T19:54:04Z The most dangerous places are conflict zones, like Syria, and countries with repressive regimes, like Turkey. Take a stand for free speech, in Cleveland and beyond 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z On a balmy night this April, when young people in Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain swarmed the streets to protest repressive regimes, Beirut’s 20-somethings were partying on the rooftop of a new American-style restaurant. T Magazine: Dancing on the Edge 2011-09-23T13:30:33Z The system cannot conceal the repressive nature of this trial. Pussy Riot sentenced to two years 2012-08-17T20:13:07Z It offers an implicit challenge to oppressive regimes and repressive ideologies: we will embrace the freedom you despise, but we will do so without destroying ourselves; we will liberate ourselves and we will endure. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z It is just mischievous enough to be adopted by your children in the schoolyard; and it’s just menacing enough to be seized upon by actual dictators seeking to suppress critical voices in repressive regimes. The Truth Is Hard. But for a New York Times Lawyer, Defending It Is Fun. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z They are both victims of a hypocritical, repressive, male-dominated world, though the actual men in their lives are weak, preening mediocrities. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Though they formed the band to protest the repressive policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time they're taking on issues of American justice. Pussy Riot evokes Eric Garner in new video 'I Can't Breathe' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z He does not miss the repressive mood of the 1970s and early ’80s. Up Close: Tale of a Fateful Trip 2011-04-13T20:14:54Z “In recent years, as Russia has grown politically repressive and culturally conservative, Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s fiction, which addresses both religion and politics, has moved in for a confrontation.” Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Kids from poor families were thrown into gladiatorial combat at the behest of a repressive government – but all in a not-quite-yet future. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s repressive regime, along with increasing shortages, made the country an austere and unattractive destination for foreign tourists. Romania’s Springs Tap a Region’s Deep History 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Part of the impetus for ending that brutally repressive, backward era were the ruinous wars that Salazar waged to try to hang on to Portugal’s African colonies, Mozambique and Angola. The rain forest destination Americans are missing out on 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Its heroine was a spirited 9-year-old trapped in a repressive convent school, and her experience spoke to Ms. Callil, who had suffered a similar upbringing. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z But Mustang’s repressive culture depicted wasn’t all that different to that of The Virgin Suicides, set in 1970s Michigan. Different for girls: why virginity is still a burden for teenage girls 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z As Screen Actors Guild president, the liberal Asner was caught up in a political controversy in 1982 when he spoke out against U.S. involvement with repressive governments in Latin America. Actor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z And the repressive forces of the dictatorship, a distant reality at the beginning of the movie, reveal themselves with greater force by the end. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Profiling five women fighting back against repressive cultural and religious traditions, the film allows each to explain her embrace of activism. ‘#Female Pleasure’ Review: Fighting the Patriarchy 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Dow’s film features, for example, the song “President for Life,” a homage to François Duvalier, the dictator known a s Papa Doc, that portrays Haitians as happy and flourishing under his repressive rule. ?When the Drum Is Beating,? About Orchestre Septentrional 2012-04-10T22:50:42Z And the repressive mechanism, just as it darkens the alley, also illuminates the worthless. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z But the memoir’s deepest revelations have to do with her repressive childhood in Jamaica, where she was born in May 1951. The Power of Grace Jones 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z We especially forget that many benevolent criminal justice reforms turn out to have a nasty, repressive underside that expands rather than reduces the net of social control. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z But they lost momentum after Putin became president in 2000, partly out of fear of a newly repressive climate, partly succumbing to apathy. Russia's artists enter political fray in elections 2012-03-01T11:36:13Z Yelling counterrevolutionary invective between the lines of the reactionary “Dixie” may seem on the nose, but Mac — who prefers the genderfluid pronoun “judy” — is not about to let repressive history lie unchallenged. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Both used their fame to critique fame—a repressive system that kept their real selves from the world. Carrie Fisher and George Michael Were the Same in 1 Way 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The “bridge between East and West” cliché idealizes Constantinople’s fabled past, before the emergence of the repressive Turkish state. Voyages: The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble 2012-02-10T17:20:36Z Eight years ago in The Magdalene Sisters, his second movie as writer-director, took up the cudgels against the repressive cruelty of a Catholic institution for girls in the Ireland of the 1960s. Neds ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:53Z A cross is a symbol of the repressive religious prejudice that supports dictatorship. Nudity, masks and color: Protests for Pussy Riot 2012-08-17T12:40:55Z What seems like a play about free speech becomes a play about family dynamics and repressive religion and budding artists and young love and probably some other stuff, too. Review: In ‘Education,’ a Fictional Protest That Pales Next to Real Ones 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi won that election but soon mirrored some of the same repressive techniques as Mubarak. Lessons from “the Egyptian Jon Stewart”: “The satirist’s role ends at the screen” 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z A Franco-German production shot in Morocco, the film cuts between a Tehran teeming with demonstrators and repressive police and shot in desaturated colour, and a lush, dreamlike, mysterious garden where the women gather. Women Without Men 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z I just wish Banned Books Week didn’t appear to exaggerate a problem that’s largely confined to our repressive past. Perspective | Do we really still need Banned Books Week? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z He was born in 1926 into a strict Methodist family, which he describes as "repressive" and "undemonstrative". Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z De Robertis takes us inside a repressive regime during a time of global revolution and social discord much like our own. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Myanmar, once a pariah state that was ruled for decades by a repressive military junta, is emerging from two years of landmark political and economic liberalization. Special Report: Travel Asia: In Myanmar, Sailing in the Wake of Kipling and Orwell 2013-08-30T07:54:37Z Within it, Federico García Lorca says much about women in repressive male-dominated societies, and even more about Spain as Franco's power was ascending. In local staging of 'Bernarda Alba,' tyranny begins at home 2012-05-09T17:30:07Z The earlier film is a bracingly pulpy product of its moment, a time when American movies were breaking free of repressive codes and reveling — sometimes wallowing — in sexual display and rough violence. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The media adopt their labeling of this repressive agenda as "small" or "limited" government. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z I would be strong without him, because Gloria Steinem and my repressive sixth-grade math teacher taught me, in different ways, how to be strong. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z More than 50 years ago, in more repressive times, children dressed in more gender-neutral colors until it was no longer marketable for retail companies in the 1950s. We're long overdue to rethink pink: It's time to move away from gendered baby clothes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In the books and films, the gesture moves from a respectful farewell to a revolutionary code – a way for the citizens to say goodbye to repressive power. When real-life protest imitates art – from Three Billboards to Father Ted 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Wiktor—captivated by Zula’s survivalist spirit, her talent, and her originality in a world that he finds repressive and uninspiring—attempts to convince her to cross the border into the West. In “Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski Tells His Parents’ Love Story 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The show remains indigestible, both for its leaden literary style and for its substance as the Muslim victory in France leads to regressive, socially repressive policies. Review | Extremism rules ‘Submission,’ but soul swings ‘Three Sistahs’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z President Karimov is regarded as one of the most repressive rulers in the region, with a tattered human-rights record, and the singer drew international condemnation for agreeing to perform. ArtsBeat: Sting Cancels Concert in Kazakhstan After Crackdown on Strikers 2011-07-05T17:34:34Z And since this is a Ken Loach film, there is plenty of grit and working-class stoicism, and also the hovering threat of violence and repressive state power. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z Living alongside each other in a spacious apartment, she and her husband, Tomoya, use the semblance of marriage to avoid the clutches of their unloving families and repressive society. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z But even in less repressive regimes, the notion that your destiny is not predetermined by that of your parents carries a lot of currency. A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z In Salar Abdoh’s Tehran, a city more populous than New York City, the vagaries of the human heart create a surprisingly unbridled and nonconformist tableau against a backdrop most Westerners view as monolithic, repressive, theocratic. Iranian characters struggle to be themselves in ‘A Nearby Country Called Love’ 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Skochilenko was convicted of "discrediting the Russian army" under repressive laws adopted in the wake of the invasion. Ukraine war: Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko jailed for anti-war messages 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The Chinese government wants to rewrite norms and manipulate procedures to minimize scrutiny and accountability for itself and other repressive governments. Opinion: Tough talk from Biden at APEC won't move Xi Jinping. Here's what will 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Until very recently he was a pariah in the Arab world for the repressive actions of his regime in Syria's civil war. Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s true, governments all over the world order platforms to remove content, and some repressive regimes abuse this process. We Need Product Safety Regulations for Social Media 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Trump's claims, however unsubstantiated, appear to be helping boost his standing with Hispanic voters, many of whom fled repressive regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Trump likens prosecutions to Cuba regime while courting Hispanic vote 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Trump's legal troubles appear to be helping boost his standing with Hispanic voters, many of whom fled repressive regimes and sympathize with Trump's unfounded claims that he is being prosecuted for political reasons. Trump targets 2024 Hispanic vote as rivals gather for Miami debate 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The Human Rights League denounced the government’s proposed law as being based on “repressive views.” French parliament starts debating a bill that would make it easier to deport some migrants 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z To state it clearly, those two national pieces of “crime control” legislation are primarily responsible for our repressive systems of criminal justice. Are Republicans "tough on crime"? That myth has turned dangerous 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z But activists say the new law still retains repressive measures. Bangladesh: Political violence grips country as election looms 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Chinese migrants interviewed by The Associated Press said they are seeking to escape an increasingly repressive political climate and bleak economic prospects. Takeaways from AP’s reporting on Chinese migrants who traverse the Darién Gap to reach the US 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Chinese asylum-seekers who spoke to The Associated Press, as well as observers, say they are seeking to escape an increasingly repressive political climate and bleak economic prospects. As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the US border to seek asylum 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z The U.S. government and European nations have ratcheted up sanctions on members of Ortega’s family and administration in recent years as he has grown more repressive. Nicaragua is ‘weaponizing’ US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Independent Russian media organisations and press freedom watchdogs say repressive laws are routinely used by Russian authorities to harass journalists and stile independent reporting. Second American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva arrested in Russia 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z They fled persecution and compulsory military conscription in one of the world's most repressive countries. Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel: 'Our second country is bleeding' 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z The guerrillas’ statement said the shooting is “yet another warning to all business tycoons and associates” of the country’s repressive military government. Myanmar guerrilla group claims it killed a businessman who helped supply arms to the military 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Most of the dead were from Eritrea - a repressive one-party state in the Horn of Africa. Lampedusa shipwreck: Sirens sound to remember Eritrean victims 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Some Western governments have criticised the law as repressive given the freedoms granted to Hong Kong after it was handed back to Chinese rule by Britain in 1997. Head of Hong Kong journalists' group sentenced to jail for obstructing police 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Independence for ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo came on Feb. 17, 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against repressive Serbian rule. Explainer: Why Kosovo's stand-off with Serbs goes on 15 years after statehood 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z The Serbs have never accepted Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence and still see Belgrade as their capital more than two decades after the Kosovo Albanian uprising against repressive Serbian rule. Gunmen battle police in Kosovo monastery siege; four dead 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z “We really want the pope to be our spokesperson to the politicians because the European policy on migration is very, very repressive for us migrants.” Pope Francis insists Europe doesn’t have a migrant emergency and challenges countries to open ports 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Beijing’s repressive policies toward ethnic Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang and its policies toward dissent, including in the special administrative region of Hong Kong, come under frequent Western scrutiny. China, at UN, presents itself as a member of the Global South as alternative to a Western model 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Eritrea, one of the poorest countries in Africa, is a one-party state with a repressive and highly-militarised society. Hundreds of Eritrean opposition supporters arrested in Stuttgart 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Prioritizing U.S. national security interests over human rights, the Biden administration has approved $235 million in military aid for Egypt that it had withheld for the past two years because of the country’s repressive policies. Choosing Security Over Rights, U.S. Approves $235 Million in Egypt Aid 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Serbs in northern Kosovo do not accept the 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, which came almost a decade after an uprising against repressive Serbian rule, and still see Belgrade as their capital. EU blames Kosovo over stalled normalisation pact with Serbia 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z In its latest statement, the State Department said the use of the “confidential cooperation” law against Shonov “highlights the increasingly repressive actions the Russian government is taking against its own citizens.” Russia expels 2 US diplomats, accusing them of ‘illegal activity’ 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z When he was arrested in May, the State Department said the case highlighted Russia's "blatant use of increasingly repressive laws" against its own citizens. Russia expels two US embassy staff for 'illegal activity' 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z They say they fled danger, persecution and compulsory military conscription in one of the world's most repressive countries. Israel: Netanyahu wants immediate deportation of Eritreans after Tel Aviv violence 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z They said they fled danger, persecution and compulsory military conscription in one of the world's most repressive countries. Israel: Police clash with Eritrean asylum seekers 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Similarly violent protests have popped up all over the world as Eritrea, one of the world’s most repressive countries, marks 30 years of independence with festivals held by Eritrea’s diaspora across Europe and North America. Dozens injured in a protest by asylum-seekers outside Eritrean Embassy in Israel 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Human rights groups have condemned his government as being highly repressive and the country is under U.S. and EU sanctions for alleged abuses. More than 100 injured in Eritrean clashes in Tel Aviv 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z He was reminded of the repressive psychiatric practices he witnessed in the Soviet Union. Mental Health: Invest in noncoercive treatment models 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Miller said the action against Shonov "only highlights the increasingly repressive actions the Russian government is taking against its own citizens". Russian court extends detention of ex-US consular employee -Tass 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Since the 1921 partition of the island into what became the independent Republic of Ireland and British Northern Island, repressive laws had kept Protestant loyalists in power in the north. Review: 'Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland' grapples with the Troubles through emotional testimonies 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z He has sought to portray himself as a reformer, but many accuse him of being even more repressive. Zimbabwe’s election extends to a second day after long ballot delays. Some slept at polling stations 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z He has sought to portray himself as a reformer, but many accuse him of being even more repressive than the man he helped remove from power. Polls open in Zimbabwe as the president known as ‘the crocodile’ seeks a second and final term 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z "We urge PRC authorities to end the coercion of Tibetan children into government-run boarding schools and to cease repressive assimilation policies," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. US imposes visa curbs on Chinese officials over boarding schools for Tibetans 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t like this five years ago, when Zimbabwe prepared to hold its first elections since a coup ended the repressive 37-year rule of President Robert Mugabe. Voter fatigue edges out optimism as Zimbabwe holds 2nd general election since Mugabe’s ouster 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z He is also criticised by human rights groups for introducing repressive legislation and jailing critics. Zimbabwe election: Chicken and chips put a taste for democracy to the test 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z But critics say that Ethiopia has returned to repressive rule, with Mr Abiy battling to gain popular support for his vision - the latest sign of this being the conflict in Amhara. Why Ethiopia's Amhara militiamen are battling the army 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z March 9, 2023 – The U.N. says Afghanistan has become the most repressive country in the world for women and girls, depriving them of virtually all their basic rights. Two-year timeline of events in Afghanistan since 2021 Taliban takeover 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Treasury Department, which oversees sanctions against foreign targets, said the measures were also aimed at individuals involved in the “enrichment” of Mr. Lukashenko’s “repressive” regime. U.S. sanctions against Belarus, calls Putin ally Lukashenko ‘fraudulent’ leader 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z And for hip-hop artists who live under repressive regimes throughout the world, “dropping bars” to air one’s grievances against the government can mean time behind bars or worse. Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z As one of the world’s most repressive countries marks 30 years of independence, festivals held by Eritrea’s diaspora in Europe and North America have been attacked by exiles whom the regime dismisses as “asylum scum.” Eritrea’s repressive government criticizes exiles who attack overseas festivals as ‘asylum scum’ 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z As one of the world’s most repressive countries marks 30 years of independence, festivals held by Eritrea’s diaspora in Europe and North America have been attacked by exiles that the regime dismisses as “asylum scum.” Eritrean festivals have been attacked in Europe, North America. The government blames ‘asylum scum’ 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z The women are fighting a repressive regime by laughing at it. Belarus isolates political prisoners to break their spirit 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z French colonial rule established political systems designed to extract valuable resources while using repressive strategies to retain control. Niger coup: Is France to blame for instability in West Africa? 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Human rights groups describe Eritrea as one of the world’s most repressive countries. Scores injured after protesters against Eritrea’s government attack cultural festival in Sweden 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z As with many repressive measures, Mr. Putin himself seemed to have inspired the law. Putin’s Crackdown Leaves Transgender Russians Bracing for Worse 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z People who fled the Horn of Africa nation say the violence against festivals in Germany, Sweden and Canada are protests against a repressive government that’s been described as the “North Korea of Africa.” Eritrean festivals have been attacked in Europe, North America. The government blames ‘asylum scum’ 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Eritrea on the Horn of Africa is rated by Amnesty International as among the most repressive states in the world. Low-wattage Africa summit shows the limits of Putin’s appeal 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Hungary’s government under populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has in recent years taken a hard line on LGBTQ+ issues, passing legislation that rights groups and European politicians have decried as repressive against sexual minorities. To wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Many consider AlHudood a victim of the repressive media ecosystem the state tested out even before the law was sent to parliament. A lesson in satire from the Arab version of the Onion: Some dictators can't take a joke 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z World leaders, celebrities and athletes, dissidents in repressive regimes, propaganda trolls, sex workers and religious icons, meme queens and actual queens. Elon Musk wants to turn tweets into ‘X’s’. But changing language is not quite so simple 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The lab-leak idea, meanwhile, took hold in some political circles, partly because it dovetailed with attitudes toward the Chinese government, its repressive policies and its penchant for secrecy. The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Human rights campaigners in Sanaa say the de facto rulers are increasingly repressive. Yemen: The children of a forgotten war 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The country’s economy collapsed, helping to fuel a mass exodus of Venezuelans who could not afford to feed their families even as Mr. Maduro has managed to maintain his repressive hold on power. Venezuela’s Oil Industry Is Broken. Now It’s Breaking the Environment. 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z When he'll let go, no one knows, but he has become increasingly erratic, repressive and vindictive as his era nears an end, experts say. Cambodia faces rigged election as Hun Sen extends total control 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The EIU Democracy Index in February gave Cambodia a score of 0.00 for electoral process and pluralism, a score shared by 28 other countries including some of the world's most repressive. Like strongman, like son? Cambodia's Hun Manet makes political debut 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The demonstrations quickly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s clerical rulers, whom the mostly young protesters accuse of being corrupt, repressive and out of touch. Iran’s morality police return to streets after protests in a new campaign to impose Islamic dress 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z “Anyone who listens to China knows with what self-confidence it will decisively influence the development of our world — more repressive at home and more offensive abroad,” Baerbock said. Germany presents long-awaited strategy on China, stresses economic security 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z “Today is the two-year anniversary of the July 11 protests by the Cuban people demanding their legitimate human rights, and of the Cuban government’s repressive response,” said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. Cuba calls the presence of US nuclear-powered submarine at Guantanamo Bay naval base a provocation 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z “It is about how a brutal repressive regime can buy influence — indeed even take over — a cherished American institution to cleanse its public image.” Senate committee presses PGA Tour executives over proposed LIV Golf deal 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z But Mnangagwa has turned out to be as repressive as his predecessor, say critics, and the economy continues to collapse. Election tensions rise in Zimbabwe after police bar opposition party from holding a rally 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z It also sets a precedent for repressive regimes around the world to monitor and control what people are sharing, experts say. E2E encryption: Should big tech be able to read people's messages? 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Belarus has increasingly become a repressive vassal state of Russia, treated as a pariah by the West and dependent on Moscow for support. Putin Casts Mutiny as Proof of Solidity, as Belarus Opens Doors to Rebels 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Grammy-winning singer Angelique Kidjo, who fled the dictatorship in her homeland of Benin for France, said immigrants, especially those who have escaped repressive regimes, treasure the United States because they understand what is at stake. Pedro Pascal and World Bank’s Ajay Banga among those named to Carnegie’s 2023 Great Immigrants list 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Dewa said the law is “archaic” and is challenging part of it in court on the basis that it is repressive and infringes on her freedom. Tired of what she says is oppression, woman in Zimbabwe challenges a law banning sex toys 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z “But remember, what we have here is essentially a repressive, autocratic foreign government taking control over an iconic, cherished American institution for the clear purpose of cleansing its public image,” he said. Tom Watson is the latest to want answers on the PGA Tour’s deal with Saudi backers of LIV 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z The repressive government of one of the Soviet Union’s most prized satellite states was collapsing, a prelude to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. itself. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z They support the theory, he said, that "North Korea is now more repressive than it has ever been before." North Korea: Residents tell BBC of neighbours starving to death 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump is far from alone in trying to compare his prosecution to corrupt and repressive Latin American governments. Seeking Latino Support, Trump Raises Specter of Latin American Corruption 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Workers who have escaped into territory controlled by Ukraine and some still at the plant describe an increasingly repressive environment. U.N. Monitor Aims to Cross Front Line in Ukraine to Inspect Nuclear Plant 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Kosovo declared internationally recognised independence from Serbia in 2008, nearly a decade after an uprising by the 90% ethnic Albanian majority against repressive Serbian rule. Kosovo PM presents plan to defuse tensions in Serb-majority area 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z As the contours of a much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive begin to be drawn, he can still count on support from most of a population cowed by his increasingly repressive 23-year-old rule. Fear and Mayhem as Russia’s War Comes Home 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The group and some 30 other organizations issued a joint statement denouncing “the Italian government’s repressive policy towards illegal migrants and the forced repatriation of the latter to their countries of origin.” European leaders hope to restore stability in Tunisia, a major source of migration 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z The Russian authorities have put together a hefty toolbox of repressive laws which can be employed to punish critics of the government and opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine. Ukraine war: Oleg Orlov faces jail time for criticising Putin's war 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The wide-open generosity of spirit in Haring’s vivacious work likely owes something profound to having come through life’s trials in an often cruel and deeply repressive society, white and patriarchal. Review: Keith Haring's art might not be for everybody, but he is 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z But repressive regimes don’t start where North Korean dictatorships have landed. Why a North Korean toddler’s Bible arrest offers a dire warning to America 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Northern Kosovo's majority Serbs have never accepted Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, and consider Belgrade their capital more than two decades after the Kosovo Albanian uprising against repressive Serbian rule. U.S. troops guard town hall in northern Kosovo 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z They still see Belgrade as their capital more than two decades after a Kosovo Albanian uprising against repressive Serbian rule. Kosovo federation accuses Serbia's Djokovic of fuelling tension 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z As the Taliban took over two summers ago, Ms. Hassani faced a decision: live under a repressive government as a woman who worked alongside the U.S. Afghan Women Who Aided U.S. Military Wait for Asylum in America 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Others have accused Kissinger of more concern with power than harmony during his tenure in Washington, enacting realpolitik policies favoring American interests while assisting or emboldening repressive regimes in Pakistan, Chile and Indonesia. Former US diplomat Henry Kissinger celebrates 100th birthday, still active in global affairs 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Rights groups, the European Union and the United States have all critiqued Cuba's response to such protests as heavy-handed and repressive. EU to send human rights envoy to Cuba, but will not 'impose' demands 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The former tax inspector has become the face of growing frustration against President Macky Sall, accused of becoming increasingly repressive and failing to improve livelihoods since he took power in 2012. Senegal opposition leader's rape trial resumes amid fears of unrest 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The only area in which Spartan society was actually less repressive than the rest of the Greek poleis was in gender roles. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Disagreements between the Committee of Public Safety and the Convention over religious and economic policies hastened the end of the Reign of Terror as support for Robespierre’s repressive policies dwindled. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He was never able to fully bridge the gap between rich and poor, and his attempts to protect China from invasion and rebellion led to repressive domestic policies. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Serbs in the region have never accepted Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a guerrilla uprising against repressive Serbian rule, and still see Belgrade as their capital. Mayor from ruling Kosovo Albanian party takes office in tense Serb-majority area 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z 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. A Newspaper’s Closing Deals a Blow to a Nation’s Democracy 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z “His being targeted under the ‘confidential cooperation’ statute highlights the Russian Federation’s blatant use of increasingly repressive laws against its own citizens.” US condemns arrest of former US consulate employee in Russia 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z "His being targeted under the 'confidential cooperation' statute highlights the Russian Federation’s blatant use of increasingly repressive laws against its own citizens," Miller said. U.S. condemns reported arrest of former U.S. mission employee in Russia 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The charismatic former tax inspector has become the face of growing frustration against Sall, accused of becoming increasingly repressive and failing to improve livelihoods since he took power in 2012. Senegal opposition leader appeals conviction threatening his presidential bid 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “After June 8, the state will respond with repressive measures and punishments will be very strict,” he said of the post-amnesty period. Serbia: 13,500 weapons collected in amnesty, including rocket launchers 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But social media sites shouldn’t simply accept that a repressive country’s interpretation of its laws is the correct interpretation — much less that those laws are consistent with international human rights laws. Opinion | Elon Musk’s Twitter is helping governments shut their citizens up 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z But the risk of propping up the repressive Taliban is also great. U.S. still largest donor to Afghans despite Taliban takeover 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z “There will be people who will be thinking that the monarchy represents an institution which was repressive, discriminatory and violent. Is this something that we want to be supporting to the future?” UK’s diverse communities ambivalent about king’s coronation 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Sudan has hosted thousands of refugees and asylum seekers from its eastern neighbor, and is the first stop for many Eritrean men fleeing the repressive government’s forced conscription. Why the fighting in Sudan spells trouble for its neighbors 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Some of Trump’s specific proposals are admittedly underdeveloped, such as a plan for building futuristic cities from scratch on unused federal land, which has been compared to projects in repressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia. Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z But many Yemenis say that the Houthis have significantly contributed to their suffering as well, creating a repressive police state and channeling resources to their war machine. Stampede in Yemen Kills 78 People Gathering to Receive Holiday Donations 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z She did not elaborate on specifics, although her remark came after she said China was becoming more repressive internally as well as aggressive externally. Germany's foreign minister: Parts of China trip 'more than shocking' 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Security experts point to the failures of past repressive approaches to gangs. As El Salvador cracks down on gang members, who still believes in their redemption? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z "We also urge the French authorities to intervene to guarantee the protection of their nationals against such repressive measures," it added. Met Police use of anti-terror laws to arrest French publisher condemned 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z According to prosecutors, Mr Jianwang was closely connected to Chinese law enforcement, and was enlisted to help China with "repressive activities" in the US beginning in 2015, including harassing Chinese dissidents. FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese 'police stations' in New York 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Min Aung Hlaing seems to understand that he no longer has the luxury of time, even as he dusts off much of the old repressive playbook. 'We wish we could go back': Life in a war-torn Myanmar 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Last month, the White House announced an executive order intended to curb the purchase of surveillance software by U.S. agencies if the programs are also being used by repressive governments abroad. Israeli spyware used to hack across 10 countries, Microsoft and watchdog say 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z With more solidarity, including targeted economic sanctions and other pressure, there is a chance to shorten Ortega’s rule and break the repressive cycle that has plagued Nicaragua for too long. Opinion | Nicaragua’s political future emerges from Ortega’s political prison 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The men could hardly be more different, but a repressive political regime makes for strange bedfellows. Review: A potent and intimate take on 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' enthralls at A Noise Within 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z In a speech last week, Ms. von der Leyen described the E.U.-China relationship as having become “more distant and more difficult,” and China as “more repressive at home and more assertive abroad.” Macron’s meeting with Xi could affect the direction of the war. 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Traore promised to stem the violence, but people say they fear the repressive regime as security in the country deteriorates. ‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film boys’ killings in Burkina Faso 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z President Biden took office pledging to restore a humane approach after his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, had introduced a series of repressive controls. U.S. Border Policies Have Created a Volatile Logjam in Mexico 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z And the summit this week will notably exclude two members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Hungary and Turkey, whose autocratic political systems have grown no less repressive during Mr. Biden’s tenure. Biden’s Defense of Global Democracies Is Tested by Political Turmoil 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z By 1977, repressive military regimes ruled all but four countries in the region. Opinion: From Mexico to Brazil, Latin America's democracies face a common threat from within 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z After some journalists criticised the draft law as repressive over the past week, Dodik publicly lashed out at them. Bosnia's Serb region moves to criminalise defamation despite protests 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z “To the extent the Taliban’s looking for more normal relations with countries around the world, that will not happen so long as they continue to advance these repressive edicts against women and girls,” he said. U.S. finds Ethiopian troops committed crimes against humanity 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z That could explain why, under Mr. Hussein’s repressive rule, which empowered Iraq’s Sunni minority over its Shiite majority, Iran gave shelter and support to both Shiites and Kurds in the Iraqi opposition. In the U.S.-Led Iraq War, Iran Was the Big Winner 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Still, his anxiety increased as the Kremlin, in wartime, grew more repressive. A railroad fan photographed Putin’s armored train. Now he lives in exile. 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Human rights group Reprieve has accused F1 of "never seriously engaging with human rights and the way the sport is used to whitewash abuses by some of the world's most repressive regimes". Hamilton & drivers feel uneasy being back in Saudi 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Under Saddam Hussein's repressive rule, Sunnis in Falluja and across Iraq had been the main beneficiaries of official patronage in business, government posts and the army, while Shi'ites were sidelined. Iraqi ambush of Americans made a mockery of 'Mission Accomplished' 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But there is one repressive Soviet practice that is yet to return — and it looks like this oversight will soon be corrected. Opinion | Putin is planning a Soviet-style punishment for his critics 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Argentina’s reckoning with its past has been far more extensive than that of neighboring countries also scarred by repressive military rule, including Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. Oscar-Nominated Film Depicts Road to Justice That Is ‘Permanently Alive’ 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Kosovo declared independence in 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising brought an end to repressive Serbian rule. EU hopeful that Kosovo and Serbia will reach deal this month 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The endorsement of the new repressive legislation follows an attack on a Russian warplane at an air base outside the Belarusian capital on Feb. 26, which was claimed by Belarusian guerrillas. Belarus passes law to execute officials convicted of treason 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world regarding women’s rights,” she said. UN warns of aid cuts over Taliban crackdown on women's rights 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Critics say Georgian Dream is too close to Russia and has taken the country in a more repressive direction in recent years. Georgian protesters rally in Tbilisi after violent clashes with police 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In neighboring Afghanistan, since the Taliban takeover in 2021, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls, the United Nations said Wednesday. World marks Women´s Day but abuses, inequality still rampant 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z His budget would eliminate the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Pentagon, zero out foreign aid bolstering L.G.B.T.Q. activist communities in repressive nations, and slash $3.4 billion for migration and refugee assistance. In Oklahoma, a Freshman Republican Makes the Case for Deep Spending Cuts 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z It befriends governments, many of them repressive, through hard power. Facing a Backlash in Africa, France Promises ‘Modesty and Listening’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Of course, an increasingly repressive Russia under severe sanctions and a leader who is a pariah throughout the Western world, with no path to economic reconstruction, will also suffer from a prolonged conflict. War in Ukraine Has Changed Europe for Good 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The religious right's reaction to their declining popularity is to double down on the repressive and hateful attitudes that led people to reject them in the first place. Saga at Saddleback: Southern Baptist Convention boots mega church 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The charges against him bear the hallmark of a repressive state - undermining national unity and stability, spreading fake news and receiving funds without permit. Algeria jails journalist Ihsane el-Kadi as old guard asserts power 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z His narrative, along with increasingly repressive measures to stifle domestic dissent, has galvanized patriotic support among many of his countrymen. Putin’s Ukraine gamble seen as biggest threat to his rule 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The implication was that the Islamist movement had learned from experience and would not reimpose a repressive theocracy such as the one it operated during its previous reign from 1996 to 2001. Opinion | The Taliban’s campaign against women continues. Don’t look away. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z During his presidency, Carter insisted nations provide basic freedoms for their people — a moral weapon against which repressive leaders could not defend. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Of all countries in the world, however, China remains the most repressive. Opinion | They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons. Tensions with Serbia linger as Belgrade continues to support the refusal of 50,000 minority Serbs in north Kosovo to recognise the country's independence, declared almost a decade after an uprising against repressive Serbian rule. Kosovo celebrates independence with eye to reaching deal with Serbia 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z None of the repressive measures, standard fare for the paranoid and petty Islamic republic, have deterred them, for one very simple reason: They know they are right. Opinion | Iranians aren’t fooled by the regime’s ruse. You shouldn’t be either. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z If diplomatic pressure works at all, it might be by taking advantage of disagreement within the Taliban’s own ranks over the regime’s repressive drift. Opinion | The Taliban’s campaign against women continues. Don’t look away. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z That was a moral weapon against which repressive leaders could not defend. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z If you don't stay silent, there's a string of repressive laws for punishing dissent. Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Yet to many in the West, the Church of England's refusal to allow church weddings for gay couples is repressive and out of step with the majority of society. Same-sex marriage: 'MPs tried to force church on issue,' says archbishop 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Independence for ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo came on Feb. 17, 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against repressive Serbian rule, and is recognised by more than 100 countries. Explainer: Why Kosovo's stand-off with Serbs goes on 15 years after statehood 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The newspaper publisher had been locked up for 545 days, a political prisoner in perhaps the Western Hemisphere’s most repressive country. After 545 days behind bars, a political prisoner sees the light 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z A series of repressive measures taken by the Taliban in recent months have also contributed to public fears for the future. Afghans rush for airport on rumors of aid flights to Turkey 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z He began taking what many viewed as unscrupulous and repressive steps to remain in power — all of which ultimately backfired. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general turned autocrat, dies at 79 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Activists have called on the pope to confront the increasingly repressive rule of Mr. Kiir, whose security forces are routinely accused of detaining, torturing and killing human rights defenders. Hopes for Peace in South Sudan Are Pinned on a Papal Visit 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Biosocial criminologists, he wrote, "will have to show how the new paradigm rejects its repressive heritage." Criminologists, looking to biology for insight, stir a racist past 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z But for all the laughter and squeals of happiness as reunited families embraced, it also provides new glimpses into just how repressive the Central American country has become. After 545 days behind bars, a political prisoner sees the light 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z “It’s not just repressive religious regimes where there’s discrimination ,” Mr. Fish said, adding that other nations stigmatize atheism or privilege religion, posing problems for atheists. Atheist leader supports protecting religious rights to safeguard nonbelievers 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The production and distribution of the technology may give China new visibility into repressive regimes around the world. Madison Square Garden facial recognition tech, to ban people, ignites political firestorm 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, a decade after a guerrilla uprising against Belgrade's repressive rule. Sign deal or face consequences, EU envoy tells Kosovo, Serbia 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z His moves fit into a broader trend of Brazil’s Supreme Court increasing its power — and taking what critics have called a more repressive turn in the process. He Is Brazil’s Defender of Democracy. Is He Actually Good for Democracy? 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z These measures, the government said, kept the disease in check and the death rate low, proving the superiority of its repressive political system. Opinion | The world needs China to come clean about its covid deaths 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The soaring numbers of border-crossers since then, especially Cubans and Nicaraguans fleeing repressive regimes, evidently prompted them to do so now. Opinion | Congress left Biden little choice on the border 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z In all four countries, large numbers of citizens have been fleeing repressive governments or unstable social conditions. Immigration pivot shows Biden facing hard reality of border politics 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z The Biden administration has already created a similar program for migrants fleeing Venezuela’s repressive socialist government, though it has a numerical cap of only 24,000 participants. Opinion | We sponsored refugees under a new Biden program. The results were astonishing. 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Nations like the U.S. and U.K. did more testing and probably reported deaths more openly than countries with few resources or repressive governments. What Rice-Farming Cultures Can Teach Us about Pandemic Preparedness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Debate persists on what felled the colossus: its repressive ways, poor decisions by ailing leaders, adherence to an arguably unviable ideology — all could have played a part. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Debate persists on what felled the colossus: its repressive ways, poor decisions by ailing leaders, adherence to an arguably unviable ideology - all could have played a part. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z "Not revealing these crimes would contribute to the continuation of application of this repressive methods against women," she says. Iran protests: Activist Narges Mohammadi details 'abuse' of detained women 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The Communists had been decimated by the repressive tactics of the McCarthy era, then by the exodus of members disaffected by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Charlene Mitchell, 92, Dies; First Black Woman to Run for President 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Despite pledging to have reformed, the group reinstated bans on girls in primary and secondary schools and reimposed its repressive dress code, among other restrictions on women’s employment, movement and everyday lives. Taliban bans women from all Afghan universities 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “We can’t just exonerate a dead white guy who was in the thick of a repressive government.” How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, at least two of Boluarte’s allies — the culture and education ministers — have resigned in protest over what they called an overly repressive police response to the protests. Peru’s accidental president fails to quell violent protests 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z He is a longtime critic of the Rwandan leader, who was himself once hailed as a peacemaker — but has more recently been criticized widely as a repressive strongman. Rwanda’s president says the United States can’t ‘bully’ him into releasing a political opponent. 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Yet Boluarte’s task might have become only tougher after the repressive response of security forces some members of her government to protesters with a spectrum of legitimate grievances. Peru’s Castillo says he’s still president; international allies agree 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Though Russian tourists returned, the peninsula has struggled economically and is now led by a repressive, Moscow-installed government. Fierce claims to Crimea highlight slim chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Taipe charged that authorities were using heavy-handed repressive tactics in quelling demonstrations. Thousands hit streets in Peru demanding that new President Dina Boluarte resign 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “We want a free and fair election. To facilitate that, this repressive government must go, Parliament must be dissolved, and a new Election Commission should be installed,” he said. Bangladesh opposition party rallies to demand PM quit 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Demonstrators are in the streets in Iran and China to protest repressive governments. Glimpses of Democracy 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Yet, Mr. Bukele’s approval ratings, according to polls, have remained above 80 percent, suggesting that many Salvadorans crave greater safety, even if it means a more repressive system. El Salvador’s Leader Has Eroded Rights to Tackle Violence. Is It Working? 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Retired National Police Commissioner Leandro Osorio said the measures would not only seek to prevent crime, but would also carry repressive actions. Honduras suspends rights as state of exception takes effect 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z "The repressive Iranian regime will, it seems, manage to survive these protests," Brigadier-General Amit Saar, who as head of research for Israel's military intelligence is responsible for national strategic forecasts, said in a speech. Israeli intelligence chiefs see Tehran surviving protests, for now 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “That’s what you need to do in a politically repressive environment,” she said. China Stems Wave of Protest, but Ripples of Resistance Remain 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z On Thursday, Amnesty International said Mr Mohammed was subjected to "torture" and other forms of "ill-treatment" after his arrest, calling it a "deeply repressive act" that "brazenly violates his human rights". Nigerian student Aminu Adamu Mohammed apologises to Aisha Buhari over tweet 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Under an increasingly repressive system, “zero covid” has become an incendiary symbol. See what led protesters to a breaking point with China’s ‘zero covid’ policy The American Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce condemned the verdict and "the use of judicial power as a repressive tool." In title bout, 'Chocolatito' fights for Nicaragua leader Daniel Ortega 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z That impasse has been compounded by Tehran’s repressive response to the wave of protests that began in September, which has reportedly left more than 400 dead and thousands imprisoned. Opinion | We still need a nuclear deal with Tehran. Protests don’t change that. 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z While international debate swirls around the question of how the CCP will respond to the crisis, some analysts predict the situation could result in more repressive policies. Protests in China of Xi’s harsh COVID lockdowns amid weak vaccines puts pressure on state to act 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z First, the regime in Caracas is one of the most repressive and destabilizing on the planet. Opinion | How to make sure the U.S.’s new policy in Venezuela gets results 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z As a leader, Mr. Jiang could be turgid and repressive when his political survival called for it, including against followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. For China’s Leader, Another Dilemma: How to Mourn Jiang Zemin 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The absence of Eritrea from cease-fire negotiations had raised questions about whether that country’s repressive government, which has long considered Tigray authorities a threat, would respect the agreement. Kidnappings, looting cited in Ethiopia’s Tigray after truce 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The ruling party’s increasingly repressive moves to retain power and its gradual constriction of liberties have together created an environment where speaking out against the government comes with significant risks, sometimes months down the line. He Pointed Out a Judge’s Goof. Now, He Faces Jail Time in Fiji. 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z “By 1978 I had had enough of Boston’s mean and repressive atmosphere,” she wrote; she moved to San Francisco, where she hoped to explore a life in the arts. Carol Leigh, Who Sought a New View of Prostitution, Dies at 71 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Another charge stems from an event for political prisoners at which the activist referred to what investigators term Russia's "supposedly repressive policies". Ukraine war: Russian activist writes letters from jail 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z In the absence of accountability which comes with open discussion, awarding compensation to repressive governments for climate damage "is a blank cheque for more repression," she said. Curbs on rights weaken Egypt's climate talks, campaigners say 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Usually when we’re talking about serious violations of human rights, the sovereignty concern is like, “Oh, we shouldn’t interfere in this repressive state’s sovereignty here.” Can There Be a Rights Reckoning for Nations That Don’t Want to Do It? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z China is using cyberattacks, influence operations and mass data theft to extend repressive authoritarian controls over its population and throughout the world, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report. DNI: China expands use of cyber repression to control population 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z And so it has for more than a century, as Iran struggled first against repressive autocracy and then against extreme theocracy. Reza Aslan on Tehrangeles, revolution and the death threats that sidelined his book tour 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive countries in the world, with little to no tolerance for free expression.” Biden says foreign Twitter funding is worthy of scrutiny 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z "I'm a gay man and the abortion ruling is indicative of how repressive American policies are getting," said Mr Pribble. US midterms: Why a Republican 'wave' never happened 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “This is the most repressive COP probably in the history of COP,” said the civil society representative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her organization’s members. Climate talks in Egypt overshadowed by shouting matches over human rights 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z As a political philosopher, I spend a lot of time studying those who believe in authoritarian, totalitarian and other repressive forms of government, on both the right and the left. Why some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z China’s zero-Covid policy, now in its third year, seeks to eliminate infections through stringent, often repressive, controls on movement and personal freedom. 3-Year-Old in China Dies After Covid Restrictions Delayed Care 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s not immediately clear to what extent its deeply repressive government, which has long considered Tigray authorities a threat, will respect the agreement. AU envoy: Ethiopia’s warring sides agree to stop hostilities 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z But Eritrea isn’t part of talks, and it’s not clear whether the deeply repressive country bordering the Tigray region will heed any agreement. Witnesses allege Eritrean abuses during Ethiopia peace talks 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Michnik was a dissident who was a prominent figure in Poland’s Solidarity pro-democracy movement and was imprisoned in the 1980s for his efforts to end his country’s repressive communist rule. Rights activist, archaeologist, architect honored in Spain 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The coalition noted that, to fund the Twitter purchase, Musk is "accepting financing from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud and the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar—two countries run by repressive regimes." "Dangerous for us all": Elon Musk's business past offers worrying signs for Twitter's future 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z But Putin ultimately squashed the opposition, with increasingly repressive measures including arrests and prosecutions. Ksenia Sobchak, Russian star linked to Putin, fled using Israeli passport 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In recent years, Putin’s government has grown increasingly repressive, cracking down on political opposition figures, journalists, activists and scholars — labeling hundreds as “foreign agents.” Putin demands U.S. respect ‘multipolar’ world and tell Ukraine to seek peace 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Many of the dark forces that I write about, from 1917 to 1921, that very repressive time in our country's history, are still with us today. Adam Hochschild on history and the orange man: "We haven't had a figure exactly like him before" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z In doing so, they’re overcoming their fear of the repressive government, their political depression and their loneliness as political heretics in a society that espouses one leader, one party and one ideology. A Lonely Protest in Beijing Inspires Young Chinese to Find Their Voice 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Boris Bondarev, a counsellor at Russia's permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva, resigned in May because he felt the war had shown just how repressive and warped his homeland had become. Russia faces turmoil, says former diplomat who resigned over war 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “President Wickremesinghe is pursuing abusive and repressive policies that make it difficult for Sri Lanka’s international partners to wholeheartedly back desperately needed economic measures,” Ganguly said. Sri Lanka urged to withdraw bill allowing broad detentions 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The Middle East’s recent history provides multiple examples of similar popular movements quashed by repressive states. Iran’s Loyal Security Forces Protect Ruling System That Protesters Want to Topple 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Protesters reject that characterization, saying the demonstrations are a spontaneous outpouring of anger at decades of repressive rule, poor governance and international isolation. EXPLAINER: Who is leading the crackdown on Iran’s protests? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The 1979 revolution ousted the U.S.-backed shah, the monarch whose rule was resolutely secular but was also brutally repressive and plagued with corruption. Protests galvanize Iranians abroad in hope, worry and unity 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The bill declared null and void the convictions and penalties handed down by Francoist repressive bodies over people's political and other beliefs, or sexual orientation. Heirs of Spain's fascist party founder ask for his remains to be exhumed 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z These repressive efforts vary in type as well as in sophistication. Opinion | Can Elon Musk’s satellites beat Iranian internet blackouts? It depends. 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It was the second year in a row that someone from Russia had won the prize — an unusual streak that underlines the West’s resolve to call out the Kremlin’s repressive actions. Nobel Peace Prize Winners Share a Past Shadowed by Russian Abuses 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In the former, government is repressive but not all-encompassing. Opinion | What the West is still getting wrong about the rise of Xi Jinping 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It is a repressive, highly adaptive regime with many tools to control the population. As Ukraine war falters, Russians ask a risky question: Could Putin fall? 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Some of her songs reflected the lives of many rural women and mothers, lamenting their invisible labor and the repressive and gendered roles that kept them tied to a singular identity. Loretta Lynn’s songs resonate anew amid abortion debate 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps because neither Mr. Putin’s repressive Russia, nor President Xi Jinping’s surveillance state in China, is an attractive counter model. A Time of Unease and Challenge for Democracy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “The Onion regularly pokes its finger in the eyes of repressive and authoritarian regimes, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, and domestic presidential administrations,” the brief says. The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z In January 2021, shortly before leaving office, he officially declared that Beijing’s repressive policies against minority Uyghurs in western China amounted to a “genocide.” Chinese Embassy tries to silence Pompeo broadcasts into China 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Colonna suggested the new measures could target repressive regime figures who send their children to live in Western countries. EU to target Iranian officials with travel bans, asset freezes - France 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “We will not tolerate efforts by the PRC or any authoritarian government to export repressive measures to our country,” said Matthew G. Olsen, assistant attorney general and chief of the national security division. Report details China’s covert, overseas police operations to force political dissidents to return 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The group described Mitko as another victim of “the repressive system that persecuted him for a crime he hasn’t committed.” Mitko, Russian Arctic expert, dies at 81 under house arrest 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z “Forces were swirling under the surface of American life, and they can come to the surface very quickly in repressive periods,” Hochschild said. The last time American democracy stood on the brink 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z But some experts are worried the court itself has become repressive. A choice between two heavyweights 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Diallo had been living in exile under Condé, who had become increasingly repressive and sparked widespread outrage when he ran for a third term. After shocking stadium massacre, Guinea finally tries its former leaders 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z “The Iranian Football Association is an important ambassador of the Islamic Republic and is acting in line with the repressive regime,” the activist group, Open Stadiums, wrote in a letter to FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino. Arrests and Warnings as Iranian Soccer Stars Take Side in Protests 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Instead, as in the rest of the country, Amini has become a symbol of the oppression of women, rallying anger against Iran’s repressive policies. Kurdish exiles back Iran protests but deny organizing them 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z "Iranian security forces must drop their repressive measures against the journalists telling this critical story and restore the internet access that is vital to keep the public informed," the CPJ said. Iran protests: Death toll rises to 76 as crackdown intensifies - rights group 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z In the process, according to experts in law and government, the court has taken its own repressive turn. To Defend Democracy, Is Brazil’s Top Court Going Too Far? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z It has published leaked documents detailing repressive tactics of Chinese police, and in July hosted Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine. A new anti-communism museum in D.C. tallies 100 million victims of Marx’s ideology 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Asked how the expanded license would help Iranians if their government again shuts down internet access, a State Department official also briefing reporters said Iran's government would still have "repressive tools for communication." US adjusts sanctions to help Iranians evade online surveillance, censorship 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Amini’s death has garnered international attention and turned her into a symbol of Iran’s restrictive and violent treatment of women and its repressive policing of the opposition. Protests Intensify in Iran Over Woman Who Died in Custody 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Amini’s death has garnered international attention and turned her into a symbol of Iran’s restrictive and violent treatment of women and its repressive policing of opposition. Protests Intensify in Iran Over Woman Who Died in Custody 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “Those fleeing repressive regimes pose significant challenges for processing and removal,” he said, using the official term for deportations. U.S. arrests along Mexico border top 2 million a year for first time 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Even in Tibet, where people live under repressive controls from the Chinese government, there are grumblings against lockdowns. Your Tuesday Briefing: Britain Buries Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Her death comes in the wake of growing reports of repressive acts against women, including those judged not to be complying with Islamic dress code being barred from entering government offices and banks. Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Late last month, the United Nations’ human rights office said the Chinese government’s mass detentions and other repressive measures in Xinjiang “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.” Just Bread and Noodles: China’s Covid Lockdown Distress Hits Xinjiang 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z She spoke at her confirmation hearing about the lasting influence of her mother, who at age 7 “had to flee the repressive Castro regime in search of freedom and security.” In ruling for Trump, low-profile judge Aileen Cannon invites scrutiny 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “Almost surely, there will be even greater pressure on dissenters, with a range of authoritarian tools and repressive laws,” they wrote. Russians back war in Ukraine, but report finds notable opposition 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In the culturally repressive era of the 1890s, ending a marriage was social anathema — and virtually impossible legally. When divorce was widely banned, desperate women went to South Dakota 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z During her July 2020 confirmation hearing, the then-prosecutor noted that her mother “had to flee the repressive Castro regime in search of freedom and security,” leaving Cuba at the age of 7. Florida judge faces criticism following order in Trump case 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The chaos that followed the empire’s collapse fostered the rise of Putin, who set his sights not on building a prosperous future but on recovering a corrupt, repressive past. Opinion | A potential new snag for Putin: The retreat of Jack Frost 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Kosovo won independence from Serbia in 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against Belgrade's repressive rule. Why ethnic tensions are flaring again in northern Kosovo 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z This proved to be a misunderstanding of the nature of the repressive empire he ruled. The West’s Illusions About Gorbachev and the Victory of Liberalism 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr Alaoudh warned that it was "impossible not to connect the dots" between US President Joe Biden's controversial meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed in Jeddah last month and "the uptick in the repressive attacks". Nourah al-Qahtani: Saudi woman jailed for 45 years for social media posts 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z After Vladimir Putin came to power Gorbachev became a vocal critic, accusing him of running an increasingly repressive regime. In pictures: The life of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z This relaxation of the repressive regime caused a stirring among the many diverse nationalities that comprised the sprawling Soviet Union. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In Romania, crowds surged into the streets of Bucharest in December, forcing Nicolae Ceausescu, the most repressive and most hated of all the Communist leaders, to flee. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Needless to say, it’s a capability that lots of repressive governments would be glad to have. The security flaws that make Twitter’s insider threat so scary 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The movement failed to break the repressive state apparatus, buttressed by enormous oil and gas revenues, that has stifled freedom and opportunity. In Algeria, Macron Seeks to Reshape a Traumatic Relationship With France 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z The “exception clause” loophole led to repressive 19th-century laws in the South known as Black Codes that allowed authorities to incarcerate Black people for petty crimes, such as vagrancy, and then force them to work. Yes, slavery is on the ballot in some states 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Gorbachev remained a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin, who he accused of running an increasingly repressive regime. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In response, Najib imposed new repressive security measures and increasingly pandered to Islamists and ethnic chauvinism to shore up his Malay support base. Malaysia’s imprisoned ex-PM Najib was once a political star 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z In a repressive environment, assessing the population’s views as a whole, even by an internationally respected pollster such as Levada, is uncertain. Moscow seeks a ‘sense of normal’ amid Ukraine conflict 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z There are three ways to control the transcription of an operon: repressive control, activator control, and inducible control. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z She says that whoever was responsible, the killing "could possibly be used to ramp up some public outrage within the country to justify even more active repressive actions on the part of the state". Darya Dugina: Speculation rife as Russians ponder journalist's killing 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z In its Declaration and Resolves, colonists demanded the repeal of all repressive acts passed since 1773. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Then, in 1944, Red Army troops liberated the city from Nazi control; now Russian troops seek to impose on Odesa a repressive autocracy as part of the campaign to “denazify” a democratic Ukraine. Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z If the technological resources that are at the disposal of today’s governments had been available to the East Germany Stasi and the Romanian Securitate, would those repressive regimes have fallen? American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Kosovo won independence from Serbia in 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against repressive Belgrade rule. Explainer: Leaders of Kosovo and Serbia seek to allay tensions at talks in Brussels 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Yes, Taliban rule in Afghanistan has been violent, repressive and chaotic — an economic and human catastrophe for Afghans, especially women. Column: Kabul's fall was a debacle, but long-term impact hasn't been as catastrophic as feared 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z In addition to its propaganda campaign, the U.S. government also tried to secure broad support for the war effort with repressive legislation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The law enacted by Georgia Republicans to ban most abortions, Ms. Xu said, reminded her of the repressive reproductive policies in China, where she lived for the first half of her life. Asian American Voters Rallied for Democrats in 2020. Will They Again? 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Now, we have seen that the Taliban have, in fact, returned to many of the repressive and hard-line ways that characterized their regime in the 1990s. The Tumultuous Summer That Changed the World 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The tiny landlocked Balkan country gained independence from Serbia in 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against repressive Belgrade rule. Kosovo PM says tensions with Serbs in north could escalate, warns of possible new conflict 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Nicaragua, despite its repressive, antidemocratic ruler, Daniel Ortega, is also receiving millions in assistance. Opinion | Arrival of bused migrants can’t be Muriel Bowser’s problem to solve 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Western diplomats have frequently suggested the Taliban's repressive policies towards women mean any help intended for the Afghan people has to bypass their government. Afghanistan: The Taliban sniper now working behind a desk 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In his view, the question of a reformed Taliban was based on a false impression of the original regime, which he denied was violently repressive. The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The breach is especially worrisome because many Twitter account owners, including human rights activists, do not disclose their identities in their profiles for security reasons that include fear of persecution by repressive authorities. Twitter breach exposed anonymous account owners 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Pelosi has often made clear, including in this year’s hearing, that her objections are not directed at the Chinese people, but toward their “repressive” government. Pelosi’s Taiwan trip a culmination of decades of challenging China 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Women in more repressive states have to travel to obtain care and are likely to be more financially and emotionally stressed and further along in their pregnancies. The criminalization of pregnancy 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z It is a political feeling, the raison d'être and oldest manipulation tactic of repressive groups and regimes. America's heart of darkness: Making sense of the nonsensical allure of MAGA 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Microsoft’s written testimony described a largely unregulated commercial spyware industry where private actors were free to contract with repressive regimes around the world. Microsoft says it caught an Austrian spyware group using previously unknown Windows exploits 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The protests gave Beijing a pretext to upend that agreement — wiping away many of the city’s freedoms and exposing the West’s inability to rein in an increasingly bold and repressive Chinese regime. Hong Kong protesters are leaving prison as pariahs under China's tight grip 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z "This cruel and regressive step is an extension of the military's ongoing repressive campaign against its own people," said Ms Bachelet. Myanmar executions: US urges China to condemn Myanmar 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z |
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