Ben Ali's repressive regime was known for its harsh oppression of all forms of Islamists.
It estimates that 3, 000 Eritreans alone fled their repressive and impoverished country each month last year.
That would be unfortunate for Africa, which has been moving away its repressive past.
Obama tried to make friends among the Latin American leaders - notably the most repressive.
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Eritrea's government has been criticised by human rights activists as one of the world's most repressive and closed countries.
Mr Kagame's critics accuse him of leading a repressive regime, which jails opponents and cracks down on the media.
Bastoey is based on the idea that traditional, repressive prisons do not work.
Not much of this is clearly illegal or repressive (an exception was the seizure of Mr Ivcher's television station).
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So far, he has barely mentioned, let alone dismantled, the various repressive measures that Dr Mahathir employed to dampen dissent.
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Last year 3, 000 Eritreans are thought to have fled their repressive and impoverished country in search of a better life.
Rashly, she breaks off her engagement to a solid but repressive financier, scandalising her parents and exiling herself to France.
Repressive governments in Swaziland and Eritrea have been told they might forfeit their duty-free export status unless there are democratic reforms.
Under Mr Suharto, there was no doubt about what, ultimately, guaranteed national unity: it was the repressive might of the army.
Ned Kelly, a Robin-Hood-like folk hero, represented the struggle between poor rural Irish Australians and the repressive British ruling class during and after transportation.
Until recently, the country adopted a more repressive approach to drug use, with laws that penalised the possession and consumption of drugs.
More of the problems stem from uncertainty about the future of the Taliban, which is making them both weaker and more repressive.
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The first is a rigid, even repressive, intolerance of incitement to violence.
Chancellor Angela Merkel boosted Germany's already repressive VAT almost 20%--the biggest tax increase in German postwar history--as a means of balancing the budget.
In his mid-30s when the Nazis came to power, he saw fascism as an inevitable product of repressive social structures, such as the patriarchal family.
The Arab world is not like eastern Europe two decades ago, when repressive regimes tumbled because ordinary people suddenly dislodged the prop of Soviet power.
Pakistan's Dawn discusses how for many, the regret is that Pinochet escaped justice in his lifetime for heading one of the most repressive governments in South America.
Kidnap gangs in parts of Egypt and east Sudan are increasingly preying upon the thousands of Eritrean refugees who flee their impoverished and repressive country each year.
The story deftly navigates the intricacies of creative life in a repressive society, and Ghobadi brilliantly captures the vibrant city with the skill of a great neorealist.
Throughout this time frame, Pepsi has been pressured by its declining 10-week and 20-week moving averages, last closing above this repressive duo in the week of January 11.
The existence of a general Arab appetite for democracy does not mean that the alternative to a repressive, authoritarian regime is bound in every case to be a liberal democracy.
As we are seeing in Egypt at the moment, the Brotherhood is fully prepared to lie about its repressive agenda until it is too late for its opponents to resist.
The U.S. has been a prime mover in urging Mr. Thein Sein, who became an elected head of state in 2011, to introduce reforms after five decades of repressive military rule.
He also highlighted his background as the son of immigrants and the story of his parents seeking refuge in the United States to escape a repressive dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, a move widely condemned as repressive when used by other countries.
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