But having escaped one repressive environment, she's faced with another, in the form of post-9/11 Newcastle upon Tyne.
"The I.O.C. seems oblivious to the fact that they're holding the Games in a repressive environment," he said.
However, the many decades Nigeria spent under military rule created a repressive environment not well suited to the tourist.
"Gohatta" isn't the first film by the Japanese director to dwell on the chaotic forces of unleashed sexuality in a repressive environment.
The brutal murder of a journalist in western Kenya has triggered alarm about what campaigners call an increasingly repressive environment for press freedom in the country.
Odets's portrayal of a "young man surrounded by a hostile and repressive environment" had, Nimoy recalled, "so touched a responsive chord that I decided to make a career of acting".
Tanzanians are due to elect a new president and parliament in October and the combination of entrenched corruption and an increasingly repressive environment for activists and civil society has worried many analysts.
It can also create a repressive environment in which children are arrested or issued summonses for minor misdeeds — like cutting class or talking back — that once would have been dealt with by the principal.
One unfortunate result has been the creation of a repressive environment in which young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested over minor misbehaviors — like talking back or disrupting class — that would once have been handled by the principal.
