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Chinese officials and many bloggers have criticised foreign media organisations for "misrepresenting" the riots as protests, for calling the police response a "crackdown", for underplaying the ethnic violence, and for wrongly captioning pictures to cast the security forces in a bad light.

Under President Obama, the Education Department has led a crackdown on for-profit colleges that have misled students or failed to deliver the results they promised.

Forced from Sudan in the mid-1990s, they dispersed to Yemen and back to Afghanistan.Confronted with a global crackdown for the first time, the jihadi movement is likely to lie low for months.

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has been calling for a crackdown on these schools for years.

TEHRAN — Tehran's police chief, who was responsible for a crackdown on immodestly dressed women for the past year, has been arrested, a spokesman for the judiciary confirmed Tuesday.

They were rounded up in a crackdown on trafficking for the sex industry.

But in an illustration of the political risks to any perception of a crackdown, a spokesman for the president, Yassir Ali, declared a few hours later that there was no intention to impose a curfew on Port Said.

"Now, the same corporate and political interests who were calling for a crackdown on the ELF are calling for a crackdown on undercover investigators and on people like Tim DeChristopher who is in prison for non-violent civil disobedience," Potter continues.

Clinton called for a crackdown on crime and stricter work requirements for welfare.

A judge has blocked a Texas immigration crackdown for now.

(Mr. Yang, the CCTV host, for one, has called for a crackdown on journalists who "demonize" China.