He has cracked down on critics and restricted democracy.
A12 China Restricts Hong Kong Beijing barred the introduction of popular elections for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2007 and ruled out any expanded use of democratic voting for the legislature in 2008, in the latest in a series of moves to restrict democracy there.
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Ever since General Pinochet was forced to relinquish power 16 years ago, he has cast a malignant shadow over Chile, restricting its democracy and corroding my country's institutions and dreams.
Many totalitarian governments have used citizen monitoring to restrict rights and limit democracy.
These right-wing attacks on America won't create jobs or prosperity -- but they will restrict our democracy and redirect more wealth to those who need it least.
States should not be erecting obstacles that restrict our democracy's electorate, but follow laws that ensure voter registration is accessible to all eligible American voters".
Yet he professed to find parliamentary democracy restricting, and gave the eighth volume of his diaries, covering the years after he ceased to be an MP, the title "More Time for Politics" as he made himself available to be a platform speaker at protest meetings across the land.
The reason the judge should dismiss the complaint is not because it was inconceivable that of the millions of individuals exposed to the Black Lives Matter movement's expression someone might have done what Long did, but because that is not the test for restricting speech in our democracy.
Asia Television, whose ownership has changed several times, has been criticized in recent years for restricting coverage of pro-democracy activities in Hong Kong in favor of upbeat coverage of supporters of the mainland government.
