A witch hunt is under way against opposition politicians.

It is a platform for political and religious opposition groups in the Arab countries.

Popular Front for Change and Liberation Coalition of Syrian political parties and is currently the leader of the political opposition in the People's Council of Syria.

In this context, it is important to appreciate the difference between the political opposition and the local opposition groups waging the fight against the regime on the ground.

(a) The persistence of a governmental policy based on the repression of all political opposition activities

Not surprisingly, the political opposition to such debt mutualization was intense.

Outstanding legislation to be considered by Parliament will include laws on the referendum and amnesty, the status of the political opposition, the financing of political parties, the draft Constitution and the electoral law.

Economic deterioration in Bangladesh would only worsen inter communal tensions and provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadis, but the reforms needed to head off decline are often blocked by political infighting and opposition boycotts.

Arbitrary arrests and torture by his secret police, SAVAK, were used to crush all forms of political opposition.

In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

He was denied meetings with senior government leaders, representatives of ethnic minorities and political opposition groups.

In India, matters were aggravated by the investment slowdown that began as political opposition to unbridled development emerged.

Early on, he successfully exploited the Gülenist supported political trials in order to demonize the opposition.

The source believes that Mr. Al Qaid was arrested because of his criticism and political views opposing the Government.

(ii) The restriction of political freedom, in spite of the replacement, in March 2000, of the Political Associations Act of 1998 by the Associations and Political Parties Act and the increased activity by some opposition parties

In response, the Communists blamed the violence on the opposition political parties, which it called fascists, and on Romania and Romanian irredentists in Moldova.

Syria s opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community s support.

The Government denied its citizens their human rights, and new legal measures monopolized information and obstructed political opposition and democratization.

The tendency to use police powers in dealing with political opposition is also a cause for concern.

Giscard faced political opposition from both sides of the spectrum from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand, and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right wing opposition line.

Concerning the domestic political process, Burundi's main opposition parties urged the Council to remain vigilant regarding the implementation, by the Government, of the constitutional provisions on power sharing.

This is the main reason why it will be difficult for Japan to conclude the proposed trilateral FTA, despite Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda s recent endorsement of it.

(e) Continuing refusal to permit the registration of opposition political parties, and their consequent inability to participate in the electoral process

The opposition, meanwhile, will try to expand on its victory, which, though partial, was significant in its political symbolism.

Political opposition groups do not attract public support, which makes it easy for the government to suppress them.

The Government of Israel conducted the Gaza withdrawal relatively peacefully and smoothly, with firm determination, in spite of domestic political opposition.

(a) About the continued use of the criminal justice system to silence political opposition and human rights defenders, including through arbitrary detention, lack of due process and closed political trials of leading opposition figures and human rights defenders

But the political opposition to Lukashenko is hopelessly divided, plagued by infighting, and incapable of mounting any serious challenge to his rule.

History Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.

Since 1996, following an effective political and military crackdown, the conflict of KDPI against the Iranian government shifted to the political opposition abroad.

It discredits liberalism by employing liberal rhetoric and appointing liberal leaders to administer its authoritarian rule, leaving political opposition to leftist parties and nationalists.

These matters have been increasing in importance, and are inciting a clash between the political forces that have just come to power and their conservative opposition.

The precedence with the faction of opposition who called for the downfall of the regime made it clear, despite their imprisonment, they continue to be a part of the political formula.

(d) About the continuing and expanding criminal prosecutions, lack of due process and closed political trials of leading opposition figures and human rights defenders

NEW YORK China has been widely criticized for its harsh treatment of almost any form of political dissent in Tibet.

He would be forced to join Russia s pathetic opposition, which bears part of the blame for the country s toxic political culture.

Additional numbers of political figures joined what later became labelled the opposition , which mainly called for a review of Syrian Lebanese relations.

Ennahda, the ruling Islamist party, may once have been committed to moderation, but it has gradually succumbed to the will of its radical wing and is narrowing the space for political opposition.

The government thus made an implicit deal with its citizens political dissent would not be tolerated, but, in exchange, the state would guarantee economic growth.

Any opposition is better than none.

The principle is exactly the same when the holders of the national debt are foreigners (as with Greece), though the political opposition to repayment will be much greater.

The threats to the opposition happened as a consequence of sequential events that indicate the government continues to punish the political societies for boycotting the latest parliamentary elections, says Matar.

However, as with the previous Public Safety Preservation Law of 1894, the Public Order and Police Law of 1900 was used to suppress political dissent.

According to the source, these persons were arrested and are being held in detention for expressing political views opposing the Government and peacefully exercising their rights of freedom of opinion and expression.

Finally, in the face of political opposition to fiscal consolidation, especially in the US, there is a risk that the path of least resistance becomes continued monetization of fiscal deficits.