Sentence examples for arbitrary repression from inspiring English sources

What is striking is that this kind of arbitrary repression goes almost completely unanswered.

Last Friday, the Organization of American States held a public hearing to discuss nearly 200 cases of police brutality and arbitrary repression brought by NGOs.

Americans are educated to believe that their country was established to end arbitrary government repression and tyranny, to make government accountable to the people.

"The E.U. strongly denounces arbitrary arrests and repression against members of the civil society," Mr. Kohout said.

Journalists or activists who question the ruling party or its actions face arbitrary arrests and repression.

It does not take a genius to be suspicious of such "development" that takes place under repression, arbitrary arrests, intimidation, militarization, and threats.

As Venezuelans have turned to the bins for food, protest and dissent continue to be met with repression and arbitrary arrests.

A similar experience in the new regions in which it applies would go a long way towards assuring that those nations will succeed in negotiating the perilous transition from repression and arbitrary government to democracy and the rule of law.

Now even if that election had been the most pristine in the whole history of democracy, the scale of subsequent opposition demonstrations and the arbitrary violence of the repression – symbolised by the death of Neda Soltan – would still have transformed the political situation in Iran irreversibly.

Amnesty International has raised the possibility of "mass repression, torture and arbitrary detention" under the cover of the state of emergency that Erdoğan declared on 20 July.

Many governments, including those topping the U.S. foreign policy and security agendas, perpetrate or tolerate acts of religious repression, such as arbitrary detention, torture and murder.