Sentence examples for a media crackdown from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, a media crackdown continues.

Nothing like preemptive arrests and a media crackdown to kick off a new age of liberty.

Speaking to journalists this week, Egypt's foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, tried to assuage concerns about a media crackdown.

The outlawing of the Brotherhood, mass trials and death sentences and a media crackdown have drawn fire too.

Mr. González Alfonso was arrested in March 2003, as part of a media crackdown by the Castro regime, and sentenced to 21 years in jail.

By contrast, Fahmy has positioned himself as a pawn in the battle between Egypt and Qatar, rather than simply the victim of a media crackdown.

Nearly 130,000 state employees have been sacked and a wide-ranging media crackdown has ensued.

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists has called the media crackdown a crisis that is blocking international coverage of the Kurdish conflict.

Victor Homola (NYT) SERBIA: MEDIA CRACKDOWN -- In a growing crackdown on the independent news media, officials shut TV Pirot, a small station, and seized its transmission equipment.

(The crisis is so problematic that CPJ keeps a running chronicle of Turkey's media crackdown.) That same month, VICE News traveled to Northern Cyprus to spend time with Afrika, a small Turkish Cypriot newspaper feeling the wrath of President Erdoğan firsthand.

Ultimately, the media crackdown and subsequent gutting of programs led to a brain drain.