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The case further strained Egypt's ties with western countries which had condemned a deadly crackdown on Morsi's supporters.

As my colleague Nada Bakri reports, a deadly crackdown on dissent continued in Syria on Friday, even as protesters returned to the streets in several cities.

Relations between the two countries have deteriorated since August, when Mr. Assad failed to take steps to end a deadly crackdown on dissent.

As Syrian security forces unleashed a deadly crackdown on demonstrators, protests on Friday remained peaceful elsewhere in the Middle East with tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets following noon prayers.

The police seized the activist, Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary of the human rights group Odhikar, on Saturday after the organization questioned the official account of a deadly crackdown on Islamist protesters in May.

It was under General Than Shwe's leadership that the government carried out a deadly crackdown on protests led by Buddhist monks in 2007 and restricted foreign aid in the aftermath of a cyclone that killed more than 100,000 people.

Rifaat, who was presiding over his last court session before he retires, said Mubarak and Adly did not act to stop the killings during 18 days of mass protests that were met by a deadly crackdown of security forces on unarmed demonstrators.

WASHINGTON — The United States imposed sanctions on 52 people and entities Thursday for alleged human rights violations and corruption, a list that included Maung Maung Soe, a top Burmese general cited for an ongoing deadly crackdown on the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group.

Attacks have been on the rise since a deadly crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest in April, while the increasingly sectarian nature of the civil war in neighboring Syria is inflaming Iraq's own long-festering sectarian differences.

Violence has been on the rise across Iraq since a deadly crackdown by government forces on a Sunni protest camp in April, and attacks against civilians and security forces notably spiked during Ramadan.

Shawkan was arrested in 2013 while covering a deadly crackdown by security forces on a sit-in by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.