Sentence examples for repression of opposition from inspiring English sources

Being a guest of President Bush has been billed in Mr. Aliyev's circle as a chance for the 44-year-old president — dogged by allegations of corruption, election rigging and repression of opposition figures — to gain more international legitimacy.

The runoff is supposed to be held within three weeks, but Mr. Mugabe can postpone the date by decree, buying more time for the repression of opposition supporters in areas that used to be his party's unquestioned strongholds, political analysts said.

In the midst of the unfolding crisis in Iran, a country possibly on the brink of a horrible civil war, President Obama is being attacked for being too "timid and passive" in not speaking out against Tehran's forceful repression of opposition protests.

Backing a French-British resolution condemning the Syrian regime for its brutal repression of opposition demonstrators, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, reached for the moral prop: "We will be on the right side of history if and when this comes to a vote.

France is hoping to have a group of foreign ministers, including from Arab League countries like Qatar, which has been pressing for more military help to the Syrian opposition, to a meeting over dinner to reinforce the general disapproval of Damascus and its repression of opposition groups.

About a dozen political prisoners were freed last week in what was seen as a gesture of moderation after the Ahmadinejad era of repression of opposition figures and human rights advocates.

Since then his government has intensified its repression of the opposition and the news media.

Press censorship, human-rights abuses and repression of the opposition prevail.

Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian News Agency said Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister... reiterated Turkey's contention that Mr. Assad, once a close friend of Turkey's, had lost all credibility and legitimacy because of his government's repression of the opposition.

At the time, however, there was little concrete evidence of this progress: instead, rights groups documented mounting abuses and a dangerously narrowing political space marked by assassinations, arbitrary arrests, attacks by unidentified armed groups, and violent repression of the opposition.

Mr. Mwanawasa not only pushed the prosecution of a leader from his own party but also, in the final months of his life, sharply criticized President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe for his violent repression of the opposition there.