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It said China had stepped up pressure on dissidents and deplored "mounting repression" in Iran.

Sunni protests against mounting repression by the Baghdad government transmuted into armed resistance.

Amid mounting repression and growing western protest, Lukashenko vowed in his inauguration address in January that he would tolerate no threat to "stability".

The artist, who was fined 500,000 roubles (£5,900), told reporters that he wanted to protest against the mounting repression of civil society.

In a climate of mounting repression led by president Isaias Afwerki, 15 members of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice wrote an open letter denouncing Afwerki's iron grip on power, calling his actions "illegal and unconstitutional".

Evidence of mounting repression by President Bashar al-Assad brought public condemnation from Britain and a demand by Human Rights Watch for punitive sanctions to be imposed on the Damascus regime.

"But the attempt to criminalize the Ultras, coupled with the ban on spectators and the mounting general repression in the country, is a recipe for escalation and radicalization".

"The mounting evidence of repression against anyone who questions Iranian government decisions or advocates for transparency, or even attempts to defend political prisoners, is very troubling," Mrs. Clinton said.

But after a brutal government crackdown and what Mrs. Clinton described as a mounting cycle of repression – the banning of political parties, the closing of newspapers and the jailing of human-rights advocates – the administration has become more outspoken about rights abuses.

In addition to mounting economic difficulties, sociopolitical repression by the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi likewise increased in the 1970s.

Egypt – where evidence of government repression is mounting – as well as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, will be watching carefully to see if Johnson maintains the government's firm commitment to trade and defence sales while remaining only mildly and generally privately critical of human rights abuses and lack of political freedoms.