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The North Korean borders need to open and they need to restart trade and they need to bring these things in for agriculture to improve and they need food to feed the people. But right now they are prioritizing isolation, they are prioritizing repression. – Lina Yoon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Rising repression under the Ortega regime, especially during the recent presidential election, has cemented the belief among many Nicaraguans that the country's political turmoil will not be resolved in the short term. – Doris Meissner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We believe people in every country should be able to express their views without fear of intimidation, imprisonment, violence or any other forms of repression. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The urgent priority is for a peaceful transition of power that respects rights and addresses the root causes of the political and economic crisis which is ultimately about a lack of accountability, corruption and the weakening of institutions that were meant to provide a check on power, if a more stable government... can not be established, the risks are of a humanitarian crisis as well as greater violence and repression. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The repression security services are used to comfortable living and need to be economically supported, i think this is the first time where that might be called into question, because of the effects of sanctions, [they] might make it challenging for Putin to feed his whole repression regime. – Nataliya Bugayova	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In Russia, right now, if you either protest or spill out what they call ‘fake news,’ which is calling Russia’s war a war instead of a special military operation, you go to jail for 15 years, they’ve increased the repression at home. – Moscow Dan Hoffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We grew up to it, we are used to it, but the level of surveillance and repression is just rising year by year and day by day. – Jewher Ilham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Those targeted are responsible for serious human rights violations, including repression of civil society, supporting the fraudulent presidential and parliamentary elections and undermining democracy and the rule of law. – Supreme Electoral Council	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on. – Diane di Prima	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents. – Juan Pappier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today's action is a part of the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to put human rights at the center of The Treasury Department in April foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression. – The Treasury Department in April	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Before today, I thought, red scare McCarthyism was rightly relegated to the dustbin of history, any American citizen who fled communist repression – whether it be FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams or OCC nominee Saule Omarova – should be lauded for their courage and conviction. I believe that my colleagues – from both sides of the aisle – will reject such character assassinations. – Sherrod Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our revelation today is significant because it shows that the Qods Force of the IRGC has in recent years expanded its arsenal to step up terrorism and warmongering to destabilize the region by arming its proxies with UAVs, this is in line with the regime’s nuclear defiance and its repression at home. – Alireza Jafarzadeh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Jahromiis a key player in Iran’s brutal war against dissident voices and plays a key role in repression and censorship … Jahromi also served seven years, from 2002 to 2009, inIran’s Ministry of Intelligence, one of the most brutal agencies under the regime and responsible for torture and execution of journalists, ethnic and sexual minorities, and other dissident voices … anddespite all this( including being sanctioned by the U.S. for internet censorship,) UNIDO sees fit to respond to ? and indeed implement ? this man’s request. – Daniel Roth	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Repression, repression, repression, i would call it a terrorizing of the population and the building of a concentration camp in the center of Europe. – Vladzimir Astapenka	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear. – Belarus Julie Fisher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime, the Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. – President Biden on Monday	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Any interaction and cooperation with the clerical regime will be in service of the repression and slaughter of the Iranian people, and its nuclear weapons ambitions, and fueling wars in the region. – Maryam Rajavi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Khamenei took steps to consolidate the regime and maximize repression by purging presidential candidates who had participated in all of the regime’s crimes over the past 40 years. This is a clear sign of the regime’s crisis of overthrow and the final phase of the religious, terrorist dictatorship. – Maryam Rajavi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's of violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear. – Julie Fisher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
By financially supporting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, both American and other global corporations are complicit in whitewashing the ongoing genocide against Chinese ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang region, repression against their own people, the attempted coverup of the COVID-19 pandemic, media censorship, the repression of democratic rights in Hong Kong and Tibet, and threats against the free democracy in Taiwan. – Mike Walz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A ceasefire temporarily halts Hamas rockets and Israeli missile strikes, but this isn’t peace, @POTUS: The Palestinian people deserve rights and freedom, not the daily repression of Israel’s ongoing military occupation. – Betty McCollum	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The evidence points to a program of repression of specific ethnic groups, expressions of religion have been criminalized and Uyghur language and culture are discriminated against systematically and at scale. – Barbara Woodward	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We all understand perfectly that there is no extremism in (our) work... The extremism allegation is being used purely as a pretext for political repression. – Leonid Volkov	Found on Reuters 2 years ago

The North Korean borders need to open and they need to restart trade and they need to bring these things in for agriculture to improve and they need food to feed the people. But right now they are prioritizing isolation, they are prioritizing repression.

– Lina Yoon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rising repression under the Ortega regime, especially during the recent presidential election, has cemented the belief among many Nicaraguans that the country's political turmoil will not be resolved in the short term.

– Doris Meissner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We believe people in every country should be able to express their views without fear of intimidation, imprisonment, violence or any other forms of repression.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The urgent priority is for a peaceful transition of power that respects rights and addresses the root causes of the political and economic crisis which is ultimately about a lack of accountability, corruption and the weakening of institutions that were meant to provide a check on power, if a more stable government... can not be established, the risks are of a humanitarian crisis as well as greater violence and repression.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The repression security services are used to comfortable living and need to be economically supported, i think this is the first time where that might be called into question, because of the effects of sanctions, [they] might make it challenging for Putin to feed his whole repression regime.

– Nataliya Bugayova

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In Russia, right now, if you either protest or spill out what they call ‘fake news,’ which is calling Russia’s war a war instead of a special military operation, you go to jail for 15 years, they’ve increased the repression at home.

– Moscow Dan Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We grew up to it, we are used to it, but the level of surveillance and repression is just rising year by year and day by day.

– Jewher Ilham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those targeted are responsible for serious human rights violations, including repression of civil society, supporting the fraudulent presidential and parliamentary elections and undermining democracy and the rule of law.

– Supreme Electoral Council

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.

– Diane di Prima

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents.

– Juan Pappier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today's action is a part of the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to put human rights at the center of The Treasury Department in April foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression.

– The Treasury Department in April

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Before today, I thought, red scare McCarthyism was rightly relegated to the dustbin of history, any American citizen who fled communist repression – whether it be FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams or OCC nominee Saule Omarova – should be lauded for their courage and conviction. I believe that my colleagues – from both sides of the aisle – will reject such character assassinations.

– Sherrod Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our revelation today is significant because it shows that the Qods Force of the IRGC has in recent years expanded its arsenal to step up terrorism and warmongering to destabilize the region by arming its proxies with UAVs, this is in line with the regime’s nuclear defiance and its repression at home.

– Alireza Jafarzadeh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jahromiis a key player in Iran’s brutal war against dissident voices and plays a key role in repression and censorship … Jahromi also served seven years, from 2002 to 2009, inIran’s Ministry of Intelligence, one of the most brutal agencies under the regime and responsible for torture and execution of journalists, ethnic and sexual minorities, and other dissident voices … anddespite all this( including being sanctioned by the U.S. for internet censorship,) UNIDO sees fit to respond to ? and indeed implement ? this man’s request.

– Daniel Roth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Repression, repression, repression, i would call it a terrorizing of the population and the building of a concentration camp in the center of Europe.

– Vladzimir Astapenka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear.

– Belarus Julie Fisher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime, the Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights.

– President Biden on Monday

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any interaction and cooperation with the clerical regime will be in service of the repression and slaughter of the Iranian people, and its nuclear weapons ambitions, and fueling wars in the region.

– Maryam Rajavi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Khamenei took steps to consolidate the regime and maximize repression by purging presidential candidates who had participated in all of the regime’s crimes over the past 40 years. This is a clear sign of the regime’s crisis of overthrow and the final phase of the religious, terrorist dictatorship.

– Maryam Rajavi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's of violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear.

– Julie Fisher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

By financially supporting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, both American and other global corporations are complicit in whitewashing the ongoing genocide against Chinese ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang region, repression against their own people, the attempted coverup of the COVID-19 pandemic, media censorship, the repression of democratic rights in Hong Kong and Tibet, and threats against the free democracy in Taiwan.

– Mike Walz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A ceasefire temporarily halts Hamas rockets and Israeli missile strikes, but this isn’t peace, @POTUS: The Palestinian people deserve rights and freedom, not the daily repression of Israel’s ongoing military occupation.

– Betty McCollum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The evidence points to a program of repression of specific ethnic groups, expressions of religion have been criminalized and Uyghur language and culture are discriminated against systematically and at scale.

– Barbara Woodward

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We all understand perfectly that there is no extremism in (our) work... The extremism allegation is being used purely as a pretext for political repression.

– Leonid Volkov

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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