Definition of "repression" []

• The act of repressing or the state of being repressed. (noun)
• Psychology The unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind. (noun)

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• "A main demand of the protesters is an end to what they term repression by the secret police, headed in Deraa province by a cousin of Assad, who faces the biggest challenge to his rule since succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000."
• "A main demand of the protesters is an end to what they term repression by the secret police, headed in Deraa province by a cousin of Assad."
• "There, activists are expected to oppose a long menu of Chinese policies, including what they call repression in Tibet and Beijing's support of oppressive regimes in Sudan and Myanmar."