Freedom of speech, dissent and discourse lie at the very foundation of our nation.

Concerted suppression of all dissent and the absence of many fundamental human freedoms still prevail.

Re equilibration The Party protects its legitimacy, keeps the military subordinate, and manages to put a lid on popular dissent.

Governments also use them to criminalize dissenting opinions, such as in the case of Ethiopia's Zone9 bloggers.

The gesture has become so popular that the country's military junta actually banned it, along with several other forms of political dissent.

The tour description makes no mention of Iran s long tradition of dissent, of course, nor its current repressive regime, or underground civil society.

These rights, broadly recognized as both civil individual and political rights, might be misused by States to suppress political dissent.

At the time, Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran commented, The peaceful expression of dissent remains a red line in Iran.

I recommend you pay a visit quickly, before the dead hand of corporatism crushes another lowly outlet of fun and dissent.

A deep political crisis ensued, characterized by the stifling of public freedoms and the arrest of politicians, opinion leaders and intellectuals.

In 2014, the conservative kingdom, issued drastic laws which, according to Human Rights Watch, criminalises virtually all dissident thought or expression as terrorism.

Khurram was charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA), a dreaded law implemented by India to repress any form of dissent.

Doing nothing left Russia s security structures unscathed and able to make a political comeback, which they have now achieved. The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.

The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.

Since Chinese President Xi Jinping came to power two years ago, the crackdown on dissent and civic groups has been unprecedentedly broard and fierce.

For this reason, closed and closing societies have always feared sexual liberationists, and have sought to link political dissidence with sexual anarchy.

The deliberate weakening of secular democratic forces in many parts of the world over decades left the fundamentalists as the only vehicle for popular dissent.

Ethiopia, the second most populated Sub Saharan African country, is accused continuously for using Chinese made monitoring and surveillance technologies to supress voices of dissent in the country.

The absolutist regime, using its security apparatus, continues still today to silence any form of dissent using the unconstitutional anti terrorism law enacted in 2009.

Both Ukrainian and Russian activists have drawn attention to troll farms that they say are organized by Kiev and Moscow and intended to push state government propaganda or suppress dissenting opinions.

The Revolutionary Guards are a branch of Iran's armed forces that is often involved in intelligence, surveillance and repression of dissidence, journalists and other elements they deem a threat to Iran's Islamic Revolution .

We call it democratic because it differs from the doctrine of national security that was applied in the continent and used to suppress freedoms, punish democracy, stigmatize the opposition and frustrate dissent.

Proposed amendments to Indonesia s Electronic Information and Transactions Law to criminalize cyberbullying may be used to stifle legitimate dissent, according to free speech advocates in the country.

Russia's power structures, like those of America, must now be readied to conduct a very long struggle, entirely different from the old Soviet KGB way of suppressing dissent.

However, like many other repressive laws approved by Arab regimes over the years, this law is yet another tool to legitimize suppression of online speech and political dissent.

Russian state media often accuse the US of secretly funding dissent in Ukraine and Russia, so Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova brought up the funding question as well. I wonder, whose grants funded the organizing of the protests in New York, Ferguson, and Chicago?

The restoration of democracy, the creation of space for dissent and the promotion of human rights in the affected areas in the north and the east of our country are now essential prerequisites for a successful and meaningful peace process in Sri Lanka.

International criticism is sure to follow if something, anything, goes wrong during the Games, especially if it involves the suppression of dissent and is vectored around the world via 24 hour cable television and the Internet.

The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai shek believed in domestic spying as well, and practiced it both before and after the Communist takeover of 1949, with Chiang's spies harshly suppressing any and all signs of domestic dissent.

From the late 1940 s to the late 1980 s, the US played along with, and sometimes actively backed, anti Communist authoritarian rulers, who grabbed and consolidated their powers through violent coups and the suppression of dissent.