Meanings of suppressed by police in English

Local people's protests were suppressed by police deployed by the local officials.

Protests linked to both issues have been brutally suppressed by police.

Although the protests have been small and easily suppressed by police with batons, the weight of despair is clearly growing.

In March 2008, Tibetan protests led by monks in Lhasa, the regional capital of Tibet proper, were suppressed by police and turned violent.

Protests over education have a strong resonance in South Africa, where the Soweto uprisings in 1976 against Afrikaans-language lessons were brutally suppressed by police.

As Russia braced itself for war in July 1914, Saint Petersburg was gripped by a wave of violent unrest that was brutally suppressed by police.