Sentence examples for crackdown on demonstrations from inspiring English sources

In November of 2007, a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations triggered snap presidential elections.

In recent months, calls for secession have grown louder after a harsh government crackdown on demonstrations and opposition newspapers.

The vast majority of cases have come during the three-month crackdown on demonstrations that has taken more than 80 lives since the beginning of October.

The service went offline on Friday, after months of disruptions stretching back to the 25 anniversary of the government's crackdown on demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

The country has been disrupting Google services since the summer, in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the government's crackdown on demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

Iranian authorities arrested 18 student leaders in Tehran on Friday in a crackdown on demonstrations, which flared up at two universities as classes resumed this week.

The massacres of demonstrators in Kiev's Independence Square are as awful as anything that took place during the coup in Cairo last year or the initial crackdowns on demonstrations in Damascus two years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Berbers demonstrated in Algiers to protest a harsh crackdown on earlier demonstrations in their home region of Kabylia, where security forces have shot dead at least 52 people and wounded hundreds more.

Rights groups criticized the government for what they called a violent crackdown on those demonstrations, saying that scores of people — including journalists — were beaten and detained.

The Berbers who poured into the city on Thursday were protesting a severe crackdown on earlier demonstrations that began in their home region two months ago.

The ferocity of the crackdown on street demonstrations in Tehran this week (as well as the frenzy of executions under way in the jails) are signs of a regime with a terrifying will to cling to power.