Political repression, the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons
The party has a long history of progressive struggle against segregation and for immigration reform, as well as being targeted by state-supported repression and terrorism.
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His close contact with Banda, both as minister in Banda’s office and in the MCP gave him great power and, during the first half of the 1970s he and his relative, the Head of the Police Special Branch Focus Gwede, were heavily involved in the political repression of actual or suspected opponents of the Banda regime.
Forced settlements in the Soviet Union, punitive settlements, a tool of Soviet political repression
The Great Purge (1936–1938), a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, some historians maintain their original, higher estimates, among them Stalin biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, Perestroika architect and former head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, and the director of Yale's "Annals of Communism" series Jonathan Brent, putting the death toll at about 20 million.