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Red Scare (5,831 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism. Historically

Supreme Court cases of the American Civil War (622 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A number of cases were tried before the Supreme Court of the United States during the period of the American Civil War. These cases focused on wartime

April 9 tragedy (1,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

April 1989 Location Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union Caused by Political repression Nationalist sentiment Goals Civil rights Restoration of Georgian

Damascus Spring (1,278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Damascus Spring (Arabic: ربيع دمشق, Rabīʻ Dimashq) was a period of intense political and social debate in Ba'athist Syria which started after the death

Reconstruction Acts (1,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428–430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2–5, c.6; July 19, 1867

Tolstoyan movement (1,800 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Tolstoyan movement (Russian: Толсто́вство, romanized: Tolstovstvo) is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist

Rettig Report (1,376 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report (Spanish: Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación), is a

Amakasu Incident (822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Amakasu Incident (甘粕事件, Amakasu Jiken) was the murder of two prominent Japanese anarchists and their young nephew by military police, led by Lieutenant

Immigration Act of 1903 (1,286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Immigration Act of 1903, also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, was a law of the United States regulating immigration. It codified previous immigration

1981 protests in Kosovo (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

police intervention that caused numerous casualties, and a period of political repression followed. The University of Pristina was the starting point of the

709 crackdown (560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 709 Crackdown (Chinese: 中国709维权律师大抓捕事件; pinyin: Zhōngguó 709 wéiquán lǜshī dàzhuābǔ shìjiàn; lit. 'China 709 mass arrest of civil rights lawyers incident'

Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (738 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (Russian: Главное Управление Северного Морского Пути, romanized: Glavnoe upravlenie Severnogo morskogo

True Communists (384 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The True Communists (Russian: Истинные коммунисты, romanized: Istinnye kommunisty) were one of the first known clandestine anti-Stalinist Communist youth

Rootless cosmopolitan (1,102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian: безродный космополит, romanized: bezrodnyi kosmopolit) was a pejorative Soviet epithet which referred mostly to Jewish

Human rights in Hungary (2,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Human rights in Hungary are governed by the Constitution of Hungary, laws passed by the National Assembly, and oversight of international organizations

Inciting subversion of state power (885 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

predecessor, the charge is wielded by the government as an instrument of political repression. The Chinese government frequently uses "inciting subversion of state

Falange Militia (157 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Blueshirts (Spanish: Camisas Azules) were the Falangist paramilitary militia in Spain. The name refers to the blue uniform worn by members of the militia

Al-Wathbah uprising (1,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Al-Wathbah uprising (Arabic: انتفاضة الوثبة) or simply Al-Wathbah (Arabic: الوثبة), which means The Leap in Arabic, was the term that came to be used

Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between late 1940 and 1951 and were part of Joseph Stalin's policy of political repression of the potential opposition to the Soviet power (see Population transfer

Peace Preservation Law (868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Peace Preservation Law (治安維持法, Chian iji hō) was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more

House of Terror (725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The House of Terror (Hungarian: Terror Háza Múzeum, pronounced [ˈtɛrːor ˈhaːzɒ ˈmuːzɛum]) is a museum located at Andrássy Avenue 60 in Budapest, Hungary

Human rights abuses in Azad Kashmir (1,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

been issue, ranging from forced disappearances, claimed torture to political repression and electoral fraud and suppression of freedom of speech. According

Freedom Memorial (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Freedom Memorial (German: Freiheitsmahnmal) was a memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall in the vicinity of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin

Tonarigumi (504 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Neighborhood Association (隣組, Tonarigumi) was the smallest unit of the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government in World

Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair (418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the Left-Right bloc (Russian: лево-правый блок, romanized: levo-pravyy blok) was a failed attempt

Ryutin affair (1,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Ryutin affair was an attempt led by Martemyan Ryutin to remove Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party (b) (CPSU) in 1932

Shadow Network (847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Shadow Network is a China-based computer espionage operation that stole classified documents and emails from the Indian government, the office of the

Folegandros (593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Folegandros (also Pholegandros; Greek: Φολέγανδρος) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea that, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms

Agios Efstratios (964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius (Greek: Άγιος Ευστράτιος), colloquially Ai Stratis (Greek: Άη Στράτης), anciently Halonnesus or Halonnesos (Ancient

Immigration Act of 1918 (1,250 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The United States Immigration Act of 1918 (ch. 186, 40 Stat. 1012) was enacted on October 16, 1918. It is also known as the Dillingham-Hardwick Act. It

Pospelov Commission (204 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pospelov Commission was a commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Presidium headed by Pyotr Pospelov whose findings

Central Case Examination Group (1,071 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Central Case Examination Group (Chinese: 中央专案组; CCEG) was a special organization established in the People's Republic of China in 1966 under the aegis

Bourgeois pseudoscience (551 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bourgeois pseudoscience (Russian: буржуазная лженаука) was a term of condemnation in the Soviet Union for certain scientific disciplines that were deemed

Democracy movements of China (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Democracy movements of the People's Republic of China are a series of organized political movements, inside and outside of the country, addressing a variety

Makronisos (623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Makronisos (Greek: Μακρόνησος, lit. Long Island), or Makronisi, is an island in the Aegean Sea, in Greece, notorious as the site of a political prison

Polish jazz (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Polish jazz has a history that spans periods of both acceptance and political repression. The beginning of jazz in Poland is difficult to determine. As early

Wrecking (Soviet Union) (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Wrecking (Russian: вредительство or vreditel'stvo [vrʲɪˈdʲitʲɪlʲstvə], lit. "inflicting damage", "harming") was a crime specified in the criminal code

National States' Rights Party (1,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The National States' Rights Party was a white supremacist political party that briefly played a minor role in the politics of the United States. Founded

Human rights in Cambodia (3,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The human rights situation in Cambodia is facing growing criticisms both within the country and from an increasingly alarmed international community. After

Maspero demonstrations (1,487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Maspero Massacre initially started as demonstrations in October 2011 by a group dominated by Egyptian Copts in reaction to the demolition of a church

Kola Norwegians (706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Kola Norwegians (Norwegian: Kolanordmenn) are Norwegian people, who mostly settled along the coastline of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.[citation needed]

Songsuradet rebellion (855 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Songsuradet rebellion (Thai: กบฏพระยาทรงสุรเดช; RTGS: Kabot Phraya Songsuradet) also known as the Rebellion of 18 corpses (กบฏ 18 ศพ) was the claimed

Human rights in Vietnam (3,241 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Human rights in Vietnam (Vietnamese: Nhân quyền tại Việt Nam) are among the poorest in the world, as considered by various domestic and international academics

Sveti Grgur (122 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sveti Grgur (Croatian pronunciation: [svȇtī gr̂guːr]; lit. Saint Gregory) is an uninhabited island in Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea between Rab and Krk

1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia (409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Student protests were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as the first mass protest in Yugoslavia after World War II. Protests then also erupted in some of the

Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (969 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (Chinese: 寻衅滋事罪; pinyin: xúnxìn zīshì zuì), also translated as picking quarrels and stirring up trouble or picking

Lwów Uprising (845 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Lwów Uprising (Polish: powstanie lwowskie) was an armed insurrection by the Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) underground forces of the Polish resistance

Rowlatt Act (2,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act, was a law, applied during the British India period. It was a legislative

A Gentleman in Moscow (1,666 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles. It is his second novel, published five years after Rules of Civility (2011). The protagonist is the

6521 Project (404 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 6521 Project, sometimes called the "6521 Group," was the moniker given to a nationwide operation initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in

Bykivnia graves (976 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Bykivnia graves (Ukrainian: Биківнянські могили) are a National Historic Memorial next to the former village of Bykivnia (Ukrainian: Биківня, Polish:

People's democratic dictatorship (939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

People's democratic dictatorship (Chinese: 人民民主专政; pinyin: Rénmín Mínzhǔ Zhuānzhèng) is a phrase incorporated into the constitution of the People's Republic

Great Cannon (612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Great Cannon of China is an Internet attack tool that is used by the government of the People's Republic of China to launch distributed denial-of-service

Giles v. Harris (1,284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Giles v. Harris, 189 U.S. 475 (1903), was an early 20th-century United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state constitution's requirements

Mingrelian affair (570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of

Canton–Hong Kong strike (567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Canton–Hong Kong strike was a strike and boycott that took place in British Hong Kong and Guangzhou (Canton), Republic of China, from June 1925 to

Vichy anti-Jewish legislation (1,207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anti-Jewish laws were enacted by the Vichy France government in 1940 and 1941 affecting metropolitan France and its overseas territories during World War

Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet (5,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pinochet were the crimes against humanity, persecution of opponents, political repression, and state terrorism committed by the Chilean Armed Forces, members

First White Terror (1,927 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The White Terror (French: Terreur Blanche) was a period during the French Revolution in 1795 when a wave of violent attacks swept across much of France

Carlos Arias Navarro (962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was the Prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the

Black jails (1,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Black jails (Chinese: 黑監獄; pinyin: hēijiānyù) are a network of extralegal detention centers established by government security forces and private security

First White Terror (1,927 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The White Terror (French: Terreur Blanche) was a period during the French Revolution in 1795 when a wave of violent attacks swept across much of France

Burning of books and burying of scholars (2,019 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The burning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered

Leros (2,302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leros (Greek: Λέρος), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It

Socialist Education Movement (896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Socialist Education Movement (simplified Chinese: 社会主义教育运动; traditional Chinese: 社會主義教育運動; pinyin: Shèhuìzhǔyì Jiàoyù Yùndòng, abbreviated 社教运动 or

Carlos Arias Navarro (962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was the Prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the

Gyaros (1,098 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gyaros (Greek: Γυάρος pronounced [ˈʝaros]), also locally known as Gioura (Greek: Γιούρα), is an arid, unpopulated, and uninhabited Greek island in the

1976 Tiananmen incident (1,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1976 Tiananmen incident or the April 5 Tiananmen incident (Chinese: 四五天安门事件) was a mass gathering and protest that took place on April 4–5, 1976, at

1956 Georgian demonstrations (3,878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1956 Georgian demonstrations, also known as the March 1956 events or the Tbilisi riots, were a series of protests against Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863) (4,826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, 12 Stat. 755 (1863), entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus, and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases

1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (1,396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath

Stinking Old Ninth (1,059 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Stinking Old Ninth (Chinese: 臭老九; pinyin: chòu lǎo jiǔ) is a Chinese dysphemism for intellectuals used at two major points, the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)

Kommunarka shooting ground (1,190 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Only on 14 November 1999 did a plaque commemorating the Victims of Political Repression at the "special installation" finally appear, later than at any other

Operation North (908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Operation North (Russian: Операция "Север") was the code name which was assigned by the USSR Ministry of State Security to the massive deportation of Jehovah's

Unlawful Societies Act 1799 (663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Unlawful Societies Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c. 79) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1799, as part of measures by Pitt the Younger

1968 Red Square demonstration (1,287 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1968 Red Square demonstration (Russian: Демонстра́ция 25 а́вгуста 1968 го́да) took place in Moscow on 25 August 1968. It was a protest by eight demonstrators

Red Squad (639 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the United States and Canada, Red Squads were police intelligence units that specialized in infiltrating, conducting counter-measures and gathering

2008 Parachinar bombing (550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the Parachinar bombing of 16 February 2008, a suicide bomber in Parachinar, Pakistan killed 70 people and injured 110 attending a political rally for

Communist Party of Western Belorussia (507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Communist Party of Western Belorussia (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Zachodniej Białorusi, KPZB; Belarusian: Камуністычная партыя Заходняй Беларусі

SAVAK (2,515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State (Persian: سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور, romanized: Sâzmân-e Ettelâ'ât va Amniyyat-e Kešvar), shortened

Missing (1982 film) (1,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Missing (stylized as missing.) is a 1982 American biographical thriller drama film directed by Costa-Gavras from a screenplay written by Gavras and Donald

Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns (1,514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Three-anti Campaign (1951) and Five-anti Campaign (1952) (Chinese: 三反五反; pinyin: sān fǎn wǔ fǎn) were reform movements originally issued by Mao Zedong

Black January (3,258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Black January (Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and

1973 Philippine martial law referendum (180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1973 Philippine martial law referendum was a national referendum in which the citizens' assemblies voted for: The ratification of the 1973 Constitution

Thought reform in China (990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought reform in China (Chinese: 思想改造; pinyin: sīxiǎng gǎizào), also known as ideological remolding or ideological reform, was a campaign of the Chinese

La Cabaña (1,679 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña (Fort of Saint Charles), colloquially known as La Cabaña, is an 18th-century fortress complex, the third-largest in

1970s operation in Balochistan (2,360 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1970s operation in Balochistan was a four-year military conflict in Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, between the Pakistan Army and Baloch

Refusenik (2,622 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal'; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically

Double Seven Day scuffle (1,993 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Double Seven Day Scuffle was a physical altercation on 7 July 1963, in Saigon, South Vietnam. The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu—the brother of President

Francoist Spain (10,105 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), or Nationalist Spain (España nacionalista)

László Piros (247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

László Piros (10 May 1917 – 13 January 2006) was a Hungarian communist politician and military officer, who served as Interior Minister between 1954 and

Double Seven Day scuffle (1,993 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Double Seven Day Scuffle was a physical altercation on 7 July 1963, in Saigon, South Vietnam. The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu—the brother of President

Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu (951 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu (UNADFI) is a French anti-cult association founded in 1974, recognized as

Emilio Mola (1,458 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that

Francoist Spain (10,105 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), or Nationalist Spain (España nacionalista)

Kerestinec concentration camp (557 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kerestinec concentration camp was a prison that served as a concentration camp in Kerestinec, Independent State of Croatia during World War II. It was

2002–2003 Venezuelan general strike (1,208 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 was an attempt by the Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chávez to summon a new presidential election.

Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (Spanish for "601 Intelligence Battalion") was a special military intelligence service of the Argentine Army whose structure

Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) is an international non-governmental organization established in the United

Communist Party of Western Ukraine (457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Communist Party of Western Ukraine (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Zachodniej Ukrainy, KPZU; Ukrainian: Комуністична партія Західної України, romanized: Komunistychna

Cradle Will Rock (1,581 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins. The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded

2014 Syrian detainee report (2,384 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2014 Syrian detainee report, also known as the Caesar Report, formally titled A Report into the credibility of certain evidence with regard to Torture

Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (1,323 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to prosecute those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. It was

Soviet deportations from Latvia (607 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Soviet deportations from Latvia were a series of mass deportations by the Soviet Union from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951, in which around 60,000 inhabitants

Berufsverbot (465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Berufsverbot is an order of "professional disqualification" under German law. Berufsverbot may be translated into English as "professional ban". A Berufsverbot

Trial of the Sixteen (1,391 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet authorities in

Turks in the former Soviet Union (1,026 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Turks in the former Soviet Union were a relatively small minority within the Soviet Union when excluding Turks of Azerbaijan, Oguz Turks and other Turkish

Slánský trial (3,006 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Slánský trial (officially Proces s vedením protistátního spikleneckého centra v čele s Rudolfem Slánským English: "Trial of the Leadership of the Anti-State

Operation Ostra Brama (1,498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Operation Ostra Brama (Polish: Operacja „Ostra Brama”, lit. 'Operation Sharp Gate') was the Polish Home Army's attempted takeover of Vilnius (Polish: Wilno)

Kempeitai (3,078 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Kempeitai (Japanese: 憲兵隊, Hepburn: Kenpeitai, or Gendarmerie), law soldiers, was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization

1964 Hama riot (959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1964 Hama riot was a major riot and insurrection that took place in Hama, a city in northern Syria, between the newly installed Ba'athist government

Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle (456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle (Greek: Οργάνωση Περιφρούρησης Λαϊκού Αγώνα, abbreviated ΟΠΛΑ – OPLA, an acronym meaning "weapons"

MIVILUDES (925 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and Action Against Sectarian Deviations (Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives

Extermination battalion (1,889 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Extermination battalions or destruction battalions, colloquially istrebitels (истребители, "exterminators", "destroyers") abbreviated: istrebki (Russian)

Civil Servant-Family Pair Up (922 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Civil Servant-Family Pair Up (Chinese: 结对认亲), also known as Pair Up and Become Family, is a policy of the government of the People's Republic of China

Anafi (1,999 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Luis Alejandro Giampietri Rojas (31 December 1940 – 4 October 2023) was a Peruvian politician belonging to the Peruvian Aprista Party and an admiral of

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The Qissa Khwani massacre (Pashto: د قصه خوانۍ بازار خوڼۍ پېښه) in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India (modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Institutional Act Number Five (1,290 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Internet censorship in Vietnam (2,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Internet censorship in Vietnam is implemented in the country, according to a 2009 report from Reporters Without Borders. Vietnam regulates its citizens'

2005 Ethiopian general election violence (970 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2005 Ethiopian general election violence, known generally as the Ethiopian police massacre, refers to the killing of civilians by government forces

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The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA; English: National Intelligence Directorate) was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto

National Anthem Ordinance (1,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The National Anthem Ordinance is an ordinance of Hong Kong intended to criminalise "insults to the national anthem of China" ("March of the Volunteers")

2022 Bahraini general election (1,054 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

internationally as a sham. Rights groups condemned the atmosphere of "political repression". The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, based in London

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The Huế chemical attacks occurred on 3 June 1963, when soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) poured liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades

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General elections were held in Ethiopia on 15 May 2005, for seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives and four regional government councils. Under

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The Valech Report, officially known as The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report, documents instances of abuses committed in

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The Aguman ding Maldang Talapagobra (AMT) (Kapampangan, League of Poor Laborers or League of Poor Workers) was a trade union in Pampanga, Philippines,

Enabling Act of 1933 (3,430 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz, officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress

Human rights in Syria (4,134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

There has been a varying nature of human rights under various governments that ruled Syria since the French colonial rule in Syria starting in the 1920s

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There has been a varying nature of human rights under various governments that ruled Syria since the French colonial rule in Syria starting in the 1920s

Operation Fox Hunt (3,693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

talked at length about Fox Hunt and said the purpose of Fox Hunt is political repression, not anti-corruption. According to Wray, targets are given the option

Daxing Massacre (600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Daxing Massacre (Chinese: 大兴屠杀; pinyin: Dàxīng túshā), also known as the Daxing Incident (大兴事件), was part of the Red August massacre in Beijing during

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Censorship in Bolivia can be traced back through years of conflict between Bolivia's indigenous population and the wealthier population of European descent

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The Case of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, also known as the Military Case or the Tukhachevsky Case, was a 1937 secret trial of the

GhostNet (1,534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

GhostNet (simplified Chinese: 幽灵网; traditional Chinese: 幽靈網; pinyin: YōuLíngWǎng) is the name given by researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor to

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Konstantinos Maniadakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μανιαδάκης; July 25, 1893 in Sofiko, Corinthia – February 28, 1972 in Athens) was a Greek Army officer and

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The Chapan rebellion was one of the largest peasant uprising against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. Taking place in March-April 1919, the

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The Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Spanish: Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional, SEBIN) is the premier intelligence agency in Venezuela

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The Tangshan protest occurred in 2004 after more than 11,000 farmers in Hebei Province, China, signed a petition calling for the removal of Communist Party

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Juan Yagüe y Blanco, 1st Marquis of San Leonardo de Yagüe (9 November 1891 – 21 October 1952) was a Spanish military officer during the Spanish Civil War

Black and Tans (4,570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black and Tans (Irish: Dúchrónaigh) were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence

2005 Ethiopian general election (2,209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

General elections were held in Ethiopia on 15 May 2005, for seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives and four regional government councils. Under

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As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war. Many of them were executed; 22

National Anthem Ordinance (1,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Maria Violeta Marcos, AMP (born Maria Remedios Sebastian Marcos; July 18, 1937 – April 30, 2001) was a Filipino Roman Catholic nun. She was best known

Ministry of Public Security (Vietnam) (1,450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS, Vietnamese: Bộ Công an (BCA)) is a central governmental ministry and one of the biggest ministry of the Government

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Amanda Limgenco Tan, RGS (November 30, 1930 – October 6, 2003), commonly known as Mary Christine Tan, was a Filipino missionary, nun, and activist, who

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The Aguman ding Maldang Talapagobra (AMT) (Kapampangan, League of Poor Laborers or League of Poor Workers) was a trade union in Pampanga, Philippines,

1999 Shia uprising in Iraq (1,377 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq (Arabic: انتفاضة العراق 1999, romanized: intifāḍa al-ʿIrāq 1999) or Second Sadr Uprising (انتفاضة الصدر intifāḍa ṣadara)

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Z is a 1969 political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jorge Semprún, adapted from the 1967 novel by Vassilis

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Internal Defense Operations) was the Brazilian intelligence and political repression agency during the military dictatorship of 1964–85. This period started

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Indemnity Ordinance, 1975 (799 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indemnity Ordinance, 1975 was a controversial law enacted by the martial law administration of Bangladesh on 26 September 1975. It provided legal immunity

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The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, romanized: Arkhipelag GULAG) is a three-volume nonfiction series

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The Sighet Prison, located in the city of Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County, Romania, was used by Romania to hold criminals, prisoners of war, and political

Yegor Letov (747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Igor "Yegor" Fyodorovich Letov (Russian: И́горь "Его́р" Фёдорович Ле́тов, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈɡor ˈlʲetəf]; (10 September 1964 – 19 February

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Khaled Mohamed Saeed (Arabic: خالد محمد سعيد IPA: [ˈxæːled mæˈħæmmæd sæˈʕiːd]; 27 January 1982 – 6 June 2010) was an Egyptian man whose death in police

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The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese

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The Franc-Garde (English: Free Guard) was the armed wing of the French Milice (Militia), operating alone or alongside German forces in major battles against

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On 11 November 2020, 15 Hong Kong pro-democracy members of the Legislative Council announced their resignations in protest against the decision of the

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Seyed Ali Mousavi was the nephew of the 2009 Iranian presidential candidate and opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Ali Mousavi died on December 27

Aiud Prison (1,577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aiud Prison is a prison complex in Aiud, Alba County, located in central Transylvania, Romania. It is infamous for the treatment of its political inmates

The Purge (3,963 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Purge is an American anthology media franchise centered on a series of dystopian action horror films distributed by Universal Pictures and produced

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Rizalina "Lina" Parabuac Ilagan (born June 19, 1954—disappeared on July 31, 1977) was an anti-martial law activist who belonged to a network of community

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The Islamist uprising in Syria comprised a series of protests, assassinations, bombings, and armed revolts led by Sunni Islamists, mainly members of the

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Goli Otok (pronounced [ɡôliː ǒtok]; lit. 'Barren Island'; Italian: Isola Calva) is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison

Operation Vesna (406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Operation Vesna (transl. Operation Spring; Russian: Опера́ция «Весна́») was a mass deportation of the armed opposition to the Soviet power in the occupied

Ikaria (4,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ikaria, also spelled Icaria (/aɪˈkɛəriə/; Greek: Ικαρία [ikaˈri.a]), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos

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Derg instigated the Qey Shibir (Ethiopian Red Terror), a violent political repression campaign targeting the EPRP. Under Mengistu's leadership, the Derg

Executive Order 9066 (4,716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt

Athens Polytechnic uprising (1,882 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974

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A military commissariat (from Russian: военный комиссариат, shortened as военкомат, voyenkomat), is an institution that is part of military service or

La Violencia (3,569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

La Violencia (Spanish pronunciation: [la βjoˈlensja], The Violence) was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative

State Protection Authority (1,979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The State Protection Authority (Hungarian: Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH) was the secret police of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1945 to 1956. The

1953 Plzeň uprising (950 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1953 Plzeň uprising occurred when workers in the Czechoslovak city of Plzeň revolted in violent protest for three days, from 31 May to 2 June, against

Francisco Franco (20,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

him as a tyrant responsible for thousands of deaths in years-long political repression and have called him complicit in atrocities committed by Axis forces

2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution (2,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On 23 April 2019, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 37 imprisoned civilians who had been convicted, 21 on the basis of confessions

Delhi Conspiracy Commission (3,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Delhi Conspiracy Commission was created dated 9 April 1930 by an order of the Chief Commissioner of Delhi, exercising his special powers under section

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Sohrab Aarabi (also spelled Arabi) (Persian: سهراب اعرابی Sohrāb A'rābī; 23 February 1990 – 15 June 2009) was a 19-year-old Iranian pro-democracy student

Struggle session (3,344 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Struggle sessions (Chinese: 批斗大会; pinyin: pīdòu dàhuì), or denunciation rallies or struggle meetings, were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where

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The Depayin massacre (Burmese: ဒီပဲယင်း လူသတ်မှု) occurred on 30 May 2003 in Tabayin (Depayin), a town in Myanmar's Sagaing Division (now Sagaing Region)

Syngman Rhee (7,838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1953 Because of widespread discontent with Rhee's corruption and political repression, it was considered unlikely that Rhee would be re-elected by the

McCarran Internal Security Act (1,878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Internal Security Act of 1950, 64 Stat. 987 (Public Law 81-831), also known as the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, the McCarran Act after

1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts (1,354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1935 Rumaytha and Diwaniyya revolt or the 1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts consisted of a series of Shia tribal uprisings in the mid-Euphrates region against

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The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived

Internal troops (3,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Mohsen Rouholamini (Persian: محسن روح‌الامینی ;20 May 1984 – July 2009) was a graduate student in the computer engineering department at the University

Nazi human experimentation (5,614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There

Operation Mavhoterapapi (89 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Operation Mavhoterapapi (English: Operation Where You Put Your X), was a large scale Zimbabwean government campaign to punish those who supposedly voted

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June of that year, the first Days of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression were held on the islands; in subsequent years this event would take

Aris Velouchiotis (2,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Athanasios Klaras (Greek: Αθανάσιος Κλάρας; August 27, 1905 – June 15, 1945), better known by the nom de guerre Aris Velouchiotis (Greek: Άρης Βελουχιώτης)

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General Johannes Jacobus (Jannie) Geldenhuys SSA SD SOE SM MMM (5 February 1935 – 10 September 2018) was a South African military commander who served

Bojayá massacre (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Bojayá massacre (Spanish: La Masacre de Bojayá) was a massacre that occurred on May 2, 2002, in the town of Bellavista, Bojayá Municipality, Chocó

Deportations of the Ingrian Finns (729 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deportations of the Ingrian Finns were a series of mass deportations of the Ingrian Finnish population by Soviet authorities. Deportations took place from

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José Sanjurjo y Sacanell (Spanish: [saŋˈxuɾxo]; 28 March 1872 – 20 July 1936) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the military leaders who plotted

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Kang Chol-hwan (Korean: 강철환; pronounced [ka̠ŋ tɕʰʌ̹l.βʷa̠n]; born 18 September 1968) is a North Korean defector, author, and the founder and president

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Khodanur Lojei or Lajai (Persian: خدانور لجه‌ای; October 2, 1995 – October 2, 2022) was an Iranian protester from Zahedan, who was killed during the 2022

Bloody Sunday (1905) (3,227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Bloody Sunday (Russian: Крова́вое воскресе́нье, romanized: Krovavoye voskresenye, IPA: [krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ]), also known as Red Sunday (Russian:

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Defence Regulation 18B, often referred to as simply 18B, was one of the Defence Regulations used by the British Government during and before the Second

Transitional Justice Commission (2,808 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Transitional Justice Commission (TJC; Chinese: 促進轉型正義委員會; pinyin: Cùjìn Zhuǎnxíng Zhèngyì Wěiyuánhuì) was an independent government agency of the Republic

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The Ukrainian anti-protest laws were a group of ten laws restricting freedom of speech and freedom of assembly passed by the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament

PROFUNC (951 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

PROFUNC, an acronym for "prominent functionaries of the communist party", was a top secret Government of Canada project to identify and observe suspected

Internal Security Operations Command (2,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Internal Security Operations Command (Thai: กองอำนวยการรักษาความมั่นคงภายในราชอาณาจักร; RTGS: kong amnuaikan raksa khwam mankhong phainai ratcha-anachak

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The Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation (Cap. 241K) ("PFCR") is a regulation prohibiting the wearing of face coverings in certain circumstances made

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Manuel Goded Llopis (15 October 1882 – 12 August 1936) was a Spanish Army general who was one of the key figures in the July 1936 revolt against the democratic

Minusinsk Uprising (237 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Minusinsk Uprising was a peasant uprising in November 1918 around Minusinsk, in the Krasnoyarsk Krai province, against the policy of extortion, forcible

Deportations of the Ingrian Finns (729 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deportations of the Ingrian Finns were a series of mass deportations of the Ingrian Finnish population by Soviet authorities. Deportations took place from

1991 Sabah political arrests (718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Political arrests was carried out between 1990 and 1991 to crack down on opposition leaders in Sabah, Malaysia, and their alleged plans to secede the state

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Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 (3,433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before its final days. It took place 1–3

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The Cuban dissident movement is a political movement in Cuba whose aim is to replace the current government with a liberal democracy. According to Human

Woyane rebellion (2,757 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Woyane rebellion (Tigrinya: ቀዳማይ ወያነ, romanized: k’edamay Weyane, lit. 'first Woyane') was an uprising in the Tigray Province, Ethiopia against the

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During the Maoist era in the People's Republic of China, particularly during the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution, the judicial system

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Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý (born 15 May 1946) is a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest and dissident involved in many pro-democracy movements, for which he was

Sohrab Aarabi (829 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sohrab Aarabi (also spelled Arabi) (Persian: سهراب اعرابی Sohrāb A'rābī; 23 February 1990 – 15 June 2009) was a 19-year-old Iranian pro-democracy student

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The Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation (Cap. 241K) ("PFCR") is a regulation prohibiting the wearing of face coverings in certain circumstances made

Newport Rising (3,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rising in Wales, by Chartists whose demands included democracy and the right to vote with a secret ballot

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Internal exile was used to punish political dissidents by various Greek governments, including the Pangalos Regime (1925–1926) and the Metaxas 4th of August

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Manuel Goded Llopis (15 October 1882 – 12 August 1936) was a Spanish Army general who was one of the key figures in the July 1936 revolt against the democratic

Heart of a Dog (2,304 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobach'ye serdtse, IPA: [sɐˈbatɕjɪ ˈsʲertsə]) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting

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On 23 September 2022, Iranian teenager Sarina Esmailzadeh (Persian: سارینا اسماعیل‌زاده) died of severe beating on the head by security forces during the

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Chengguan (城管; 'Urban management', short for 城市管理执法; 'Urban Management and Law Enforcement') is an administrative practice of city-level local governments

Boston Tea Party (6,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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the Secret Police and the Party" cycle) reported extensively on political repression in Poland based on Światło's revelations. Capitalising on them, in

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March, with the former believing that they were responding to armed political repression of their neighborhoods. Ensuing firefights resulted in many bystanders

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political novel, it was written as a direct response to the escalating political repression and violence in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America. Though

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of Angela Davis, founded the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, campaigned on behalf of the defenses of Joan Little and the Wilmington

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in World War I, shellshock from fighting in the Revolution, and political repression in the 1930s, virtually silenced him. After his release from Soviet

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movement was the strongest in Lithuania). Officially, this new wave of political repression continued to target families and supporters of the resistance fighters

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