Word: suppressant
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...police and the military used tear gas to suppress a protest by thousands of lawyers in Pakistan's largest cities, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto spoke to TIME about the imposition of martial law by President Pervez Musharraf. She said that Musharraf was falling under the sway of the more radical parts of his Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) party. Still, she said she was not shutting the door on negotiations with Musharraf. Bhutto, who leads the huge People's Party, has not asked her millions of fervent followers to come out into the streets. During the interview, she evinced...
...future of the university is increasingly under a cloud if it’s possible for people who are not part of the community of discourse...to suppress views with which they disagree,” he said. “We’re concerned in general about what seems to be a tendency for external individuals and groups to intervene to seek to squash views with which they disagree...
...support, and point to the ministry's success in introducing a similar system for Thai television channels. But many film directors are actually aghast at the prospect of more government interference. Far from overhauling an outdated law, they say, Thailand's cultural guardians are finding new ways to suppress controversial films. Opponents also claim that the criteria for classification are intentionally vague. One sweeping clause in the draft legislation states that films should not "undermine social order or moral decency" or affect the "security and pride of the nation." And X-rated works are simply not allowed: under the proposed...
...More surprising than these eruptions of republican sentiment, however, has been the ferocity with which the Spanish government has sought to suppress them. Within hours after the Jueves cartoon was published, the national court had banned the edition, ordered every copy removed from newsstands, and shut down the magazine's website. The two cartoonists responsible for the drawing are currently standing trial, and will face fines of nearly $5,000 each if found guilty. Jaume Roura and Enric Stern, the two young Catalans suspected of leading the photo burnings in Girona, face worse punishment. Arrested and charged with "grave injuries...
...slip that if he were to run, this military stronghold where he was once posted as major-general would be the place he'd like to represent. But if Sonthi does enter the race, he could end up delivering the election to the very forces he tried to suppress with last year's coup. "No one who supported Thaksin is going to vote for the general," says Sunai Phasuk, Thailand consultant for New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "So if Sonthi is going to steal votes from any camp, it could be from Abhisit's base." The possible beneficiaries...