A Luhansk woman received 10 years in Russia for donating $12 to what she said was a humanitarian cause.
In court: “No other place where you can wake up and be a foreigner in your home. Was I supposed to take the passport of a country that isn’t mine?”
You mean using the power of the government to suppress dissent?
The War on Drugs was largely used as an excuse to target anti-Vietnam War protestors.
We had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism where the government targeted the left, accusing them of supporting Communists.
Or, more recently, the government arrested and is attempting to deport a lawful permanent resident and Colombia University student explicitly (from Trump’s own mouth) for protesting against Israel:
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e
During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan many people were arrested for donating to charities which were ran by groups that the US designated as “supporters of terrorism”.
There’s no end of examples of governments suppressing dissent and protest using the violence of the State.