Transitional governments in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt need help revising their repressive laws and building the governing institutions that autocrats deliberately left weak and underdeveloped, above all national justice institutions, Human Rights Watch said.
The riots that prompted Mr. Bakiyev to flee the capital — and eventually the country — broke out April 7, with crowds incensed over rising utility prices and a government they considered repressive and corrupt swarming the main government building.
Her critics saw this building as the glorification of a repressive and sinisterly authoritarian regime.
At the time, the building was in ruins, and the repressive political climate made opening anything more than a sycophantic showcase for Soviet propaganda literature nearly impossible.
Mr. Bakiyev left the capital on Wednesday after thousands of opposition protesters, infuriated by rising utility costs and a government they saw as repressive and corrupt, seized control of important government buildings, including the television stations.
These days, the nation's past is mostly apparent in its large and inefficient state-owned sector, a repressive state apparatus, the occasional Soviet-era statue or building and lingering alliances with other leftist countries.
Number 60 Andrassy Ut was the headquarters of the secret police of the Fascist Arrow Cross party in the dying days of WWII, and from 1945 to 1956 the building was used for similar purposes by the equally repressive Communists.
On February 10, a VNQDD member injured a policeman at a Hanoi checkpoint; at night, Arts students threw bombs at government buildings, which they regarded as part of the repressive power of the colonial state.
Pavlensky has a history of self-harming art, including sewing his lips together to protest against the jail sentences given to members of Pussy Riot and wrapping himself in barbed wire outside a Russian government building, which he said symbolised "the existence of a person inside a repressive legal system".
Repressive governments have recently sought to lessen their reliance on western companies and instead have started building their own systems to monitor and filter internet use.
