The attack was part of a broader campaign of intimidation this year by the Taliban to assert themselves in Pakistan's largest city.
Iranian rights advocates called the arrests part of a broader campaign of intimidation to forestall political unrest before the presidential election in June.
But the authorities have ignored that ruling, part of a broader climate of intimidation that causes journalists to censor themselves rather than invoke the government's wrath.On a political level, too, the government has consolidated its position in recent years.
But in recent days, activists have spoken of a broader campaign of intimidation, with arbitrary detentions aimed at instilling a sense of fear that the uprising had seemed to break.
Although the authorities have arrested protesters across the country since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began six weeks ago, they have engaged in a broader campaign of intimidation in recent days.
Those troops remain in the country, amid a broad campaign of arrests, intimidation and violence against protesters, journalists and others.
"We do have broad concerns about trends involving intimidation of journalists in Turkey," Mr. Crowley said.
A7 New Tape of Ukraine Leader A newly released secret recording of President Leonid D. Kuchma of Ukraine indicated that he ordered a broad campaign of threats and intimidation in 1999 to ensure his re-election.
A newly released secret recording of Ukraine's president, Leonid D. Kuchma, indicates that in the fall of 1999, he ordered his police and tax authorities to undertake a broad campaign of threats and intimidation to ensure that he would win election to a second term as president.
The paper led to protests in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy activists say the document is intended as intimidation against supporters of broader political reforms in the former British colony.
