This has led to online crackdowns, including the temporary suspension of Murong's wildly popular microblog.
Yes, we can now have political arguments at roadside tea shops and openly commemorate anniversaries of military crackdowns, including the 1988 uprising, without fear of arrest.
On Wednesday, he proudly accepted the endorsement of the anti-immigrant activist Kris Kobach, architect of the nation's most radical immigration crackdowns, including the unconstitutional show-your-papers laws in Arizona and Alabama.
In dozens of states considering such crackdowns — including Nebraska, Indiana, Oklahoma, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas — elected officials, law enforcers, business owners, religious leaders and regular citizens are providing the calm voices and cool judgment that are lacking in the shimmering heat of Phoenix.
Sudan's independent media is has been severely weakened by government crackdowns, including news blackouts and print seizures which are common ways the government tries to stifle any form of dissent.
But many of the highest-profile crackdowns, including former General Secretary Jiang Zemin's against the Beijing party secretary in 1995, Chen Xitong, and current General Secretary Hu Jintao's against Chen in Jiang's power base of Shanghai, are viewed less as cleanup efforts than as factional maneuvers to undermine enemies and consolidate power.
The protests were met with brutal crackdowns, including ARVN Special Forces attacks on Buddhist pagodas which left hundreds missing, presumed dead.
Police officials insisted that yesterday's crackdown included the entire city, although they did not provide numbers on how many summonses had been issued during the day.
The report, by Human Rights Watch, the New York-based organization, says the crackdown included widespread arrests, threats and harassment and was directed at witnesses, survivors, human rights defenders, journalists and political workers.
In a report last month, Human Rights Watch said the crackdown included "attacks on health care providers; denial of medical access to protesters injured by security forces; the siege of hospitals and health centers; and the detention, ill-treatment, torture and prosecution of medics and patients with protest-related injuries".
