political repression
persecution of an individual or group within society for political reasons, for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of a society
Night of the Pencils
kidnappings and forced disappearances
extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the Philippines
Illegal executions and forced disappearances
transnational repression
effort by a state to prevent political dissent outside its borders
Operation Colombo
operation undertaken by the DINA (the Chilean secret police) in 1975 to make political dissidents disappear
anti-communist mass killings
list of politically-motivated killings and atrocities committed against communists, alleged communists and related groups and their supporters
Ideological repression in the Soviet Union
aspect of history
Operation Copernicus
police operation against the Catalan independence referendum
Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church
2020 controversial presidential photo op
Operation Condor
series of anti-communist, anti-dissent campaigns in South America
First White Terror
counter-revolution in France in 1795
Operation Tun Tun
term for police raids in Venezuela, against opponents of Nicolás Maduro
political repression in the Soviet Union
use of coercion against citizens by the Marxist-Leninist Eurasian state
Black Friday
demonstration repression in Panama on 10 July 1987
Red Terror
period of political repression and mass killings after the beginning of the Russian Civil War in 1918 carried out by Bolsheviks
White Terror
Spanish Civil War assassinations
political censorship
censorship by a government
Soviet repressions in Belarus
persecution of people in Belarus under Communist rule
Stalinist repressions in Azerbaijan
repressions carried out in the Azerbaijan SSR from the late 1920s to the early 1950s
Soviet deportation of Poles
deportation in 1936 and 1940-41