Due to the repressive practices of the landowners, in 1931 farmers and indigenous citizens began a rebellion.
Yet rehabilitations, the exiles caution, do not change the repressive practices that made them necessary to begin with.
Some leaders now advocate a "new authoritarianism" emulating the repressive practices of neighboring non-Communist states.
But too many governments retain repressive practices.
China must understand that it cannot impose its repressive practices on the free global marketplace.
Suspending civil liberties, minimal as they are, will only revive the repressive practices of the Soviet state.
On the one hand, and most obviously, it comprises a set of repressive practices which among other things may help to preserve the conditions of production by deterring crime.
He also condemned many repressive practices of regimes that rule in the name of Islam.
Whilst large sectors of society, young people in particular, want modernisation and freedom, the hard core in power is clinging to medieval ideas and repressive practices.
They added that the police department had mainly handled low-level crimes, like assaults and traffic violations, and was not involved in the repressive practices of the previous government.
