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Fitting, since both women prop up repressive regimes from which they’d like to distance themselves when the public calls for heads to roll.

The roots of sectarian conflict run deep here, nourished by decades of repressive rule by the Assad family, members of Syria's Alawite minority.

This is his secret communication about life under a repressive regime, a message in a bottle about censorship and the slippery power of art.

A year later it had ended that debate and turned toward a more repressive agenda.

Experts say the administration’s outsourcing of detained migrants to a nation with an infamously repressive prison system has no precedent.