Similar repression is still going down in Syria,

They meant to rule by means of repression.

like dictatorship, repression, censorship is a first weapon against those fears, actually

He'd be appalled at the repression of half the population because of their gender.

And occurrences of civil war and repression have declined since the end of the Cold War.

From this point we go on to an even more detailed examination of the concept of repression.

Some of the people I've met are escaping political repression due to their affiliation the the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

It was such a terrible situation, because we saw the past, the repression coming back the need to struggle for everything.

So, preaching for freedom of speech is easy here, but as you have seen in contexts of repression or division, again, what can a cartoonist do?

For six decades, the North Korean government, the North Korean regime has created this ruthlessly efficient system of political repression, denying even the most basic human rights to their own people.

We do so because given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.

Or take Burma and the monks that were blogging out, a country that nobody knew anything about that was happening, until these blogs told the world that there was a repression, meaning that lives were being lost and people were being persecuted and Aung San Suu Kyi, who is one of the great prisoners of conscience of the world, had to be listened to.