He knew that dictatorships lead to moral shabbiness.

As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive.

Dictatorship and oppressive methods will only unify the Kurdish people and make them stronger!

First, dictatorship itself is ugly and unacceptable second, secular dictatorship excludes Islamic parties from participating normally in the political system.

KO writes on what it is like to return to dictatorship .

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova is assessing the activity of the communist totalitarian regime.

Democracies stand for free speech dictatorships suppress it.

Photo by Wassim Ben Rhouma via Flickr (CC BY NC ND 2.0). The dictator is gone, but what about dictatorship?

Such an outcome would be a triumph for the cause of hardline dictatorship, suppression of human rights, and Iran and Russia.

At the police station, he asked the protestor, Why are you denouncing dictatorship in Pakistan when it exists here?

The problem, as Khodorkovsky s conviction demonstrated, is that dictatorship usually seems to be trumping law.

For many in Argentina, the image of the missing person vividly recalls the forced disappearances of the 1976 1983 dictatorship.

As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive. Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.

When Uruguay slipped into dictatorship, he had to leave the country, spending his exile years in Argentina and Spain.

Is it a mistake that can be rectified or is YouTube now supporting torture and covering up on those who commit it and is cooperating with dictatorships?

Like all Arabs protesting against their dictators, Syrians have many hopes and aspirations for life after the toppling of their dictator Bashar Al Assad.

Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.

He joins John Kerry in an awkward push to convince international banks that doing business with a theocratic dictatorship is in the interest of everyone.

An end should be put to the existence of white spots of democracy, of criminal enclaves and dictatorial regimes, and of violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms on the territory of Georgia.

In sentencing him to life imprisonment, the tribunal said that the dictatorship's state terrorism against political dissidents was a form of genocide.

Some called for a boycott, others criticized what they thought of as the root of the problem, namely, dictatorship and repression. Reactions were under the hash tag موبايلي_تتجسس_على_الشعب , which translates to Mobily spies on the people.

This so called democratic transition, a process designed solely by dictators and with input only from the regime s loyalists, will result in continued dictatorship.

The censorship of memory, which we once fondly imagined to be the mark of dictatorship, is now a major growth industry in the free West.

The question is whether it will be a Pinochet style dictatorship bent on economic modernization, or a dictatorship with a revived totalitarian ideology?

The first wave of emigration occurred during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983, with principally to Spain, USA, Mexico and Venezuela.

Replacing repressive dictatorships would, in fact, represent a vast expansion of the UN s mandate, one that I suspect the US would not support.

The blatantly off handed, treasonous, and unconstitutional attacks by General Pervez Musharraf on the judiciary, media, and people of Pakistan have brought the true dictatorial character of the present regime into the lime light.

Karl Popper defined democracy in contrast to dictatorship or tyranny, thus focusing on opportunities for the people to control their leaders and to oust them without the need for a revolution.

In the long run, however, the answer to Maoist totalitarianism is greater and more inclusive democracy, a vibrant free press, and civil liberties.

GV Gaddafi's regime fell and so did dictatorship. Did the situation change? Are bloggers safer now in Libya or there are still redlines and taboos which should not be crossed?

Indeed, China s pandering to dictators in its quest for resources contradicts its long term interest in being acknowledged as a benign and legitimate power and commanding the international respect that it craves.

The deeper America sank into the Iraqi quagmire, the more the US began to turn a blind eye to the region s surviving dictators, particularly those in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Pakistan.

Apparently some complaints were received at the government s controlling agency for media because The Simpsons was being aired at 11 am.

It then moves to the dark times of the military dictatorship and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de Plaza de Mayo) from the 1970s, identifiable by their white headscarves, a historical and cultural symbol that remains just as powerful today.

We Uruguayans regained democracy in 1985, and the current Government, which took office exactly 200 days ago, is working hard to heal the wounds dictatorship caused through human rights violations.

My father helped those who resisted dictatorships in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and then it was the turn of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico.

To the left of thisbuilding was petty officers' housing, and further off and separated,the officers' housing, where the clandestine detention centeroperated during the militarydictatorship which governed from 1976 to 1983.

In a dictatorship, as so many unjust things become normalized and accepted in our daily lives, the act of spreading information and informing others however difficult becomes an ever more vital part of activism.

It can be concluded, therefore, in the light of the above, that the world actually embodies, in its supreme organization, the United Nations, a most flagrant form of dictatorship. It makes little sense to talk about democracy and reform on any level unless we recognize this truth in our highest organization.

A country that emerged so recently from one period of dictatorship is unlikely to volunteer for another at the hands of a man who sought to falsify the presidential election of 2004.

Accused of slander by the preacher Átila Brandão for reporting the preach involvement with torture against students during the military dictatorship in Brazil, José published a text in the press in February 2013 and in his personal website.

The new law, which came to replace the military dictatorship era Statute of the Foreigner , will allow foreign nationals to take part in political activities, ensures easier access to paper work and regulates migrant's rights to humanitarian visas.

They say that governments are trying to take over the Internet and control it, and that they, Anonymous, are the authentic voice of resistance be it against Middle Eastern dictatorships, against global media corporations, or against intelligence agencies, or whoever it is.

In such conditions, free and fair elections will be impossible. This so called democratic transition, a process designed solely by dictators and with input only from the regime s loyalists, will result in continued dictatorship.

LONDON Recently, at a literary festival in Britain, I found myself on a panel discussing free speech. For liberals, free speech is a key index of freedom.