They had gone to Paris in the 1920s & 1930s to escape repression in their homeland.

During the Emergency, she again went underground to escape repression.

But Goldstein escaped direct repression in 1990, because his magazine is printed on paper, and recognized as subject to Constitutional freedom of the press protection.

She said the Moldovans came from Romania to escape repression and had lived on 60th Place for the last two years.

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo.

During the Duvalier era a number of qualified teachers left the country to escape political repression.

Unauthorized immigration may be prompted by the desire to escape civil war or repression in the country of origin.

During the year of Soviet occupation Lobe escaped repression and deportations.

Many people from the Middle East have come to the United States to escape repression, terror, and war.

He maintains that most of the refugees bobbing over the Caribbean are escaping military repression rather than poverty.