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It noted many examples of arbitrary and unlawful immigration crackdowns, of crime sweeps initiated not because of crime, but because the office had received reports of people with "dark skin" or speaking Spanish.

There has been a persistent flurry of speculation that Mr. Aristide, who rose to power as a champion of Haiti's poor but became notorious for his violent crackdowns of political dissent, has been hopscotching across Central America and the Caribbean in anticipation of making his own surprise re-entry.

Six decades of work, arranged chronologically, would provide a kind of blow-by-blow record of the times she'd lived through — from the crackdowns of the nineteen-sixties to the new democratic South Africa of the nineties, from the banning of her novels to her emergence as a leading voice in the anti-apartheid struggle and a Nobel Prize laureate.

As the film moves from a gray-and-white present to an enveloping golden vision of the village four decades earlier, Zhang Yimou patiently and surely creates a fable in which devotion overcomes both timeless obstacles and the political crackdowns of Mao Zedong.

The central city of Hama was the focus of a 1982 battle between Hafez al-Assad, then the president, and the Muslim Brotherhood during which at least 10,000 residents were massacred, but Aleppo residents also still have painful memories of the crackdowns of that era, said Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Six decades of work, arranged chronologically, would provide a kind of blow-by-blow record of the times she'd lived through from the crackdowns of the nineteen-sixties to the new democratic South Africa of the nineties, from the banning of her novels to her emergence as a leading voice in the anti-apartheid struggle and a Nobel Prize laureate.

Christopher L. Garcia, who helped lead the government's widespread crackdown of insider trading, left in February.

But as the new state began a crackdown of its own, the dream soon soured.

The authorities are engaged in the harshest crackdown of Mr. Lukashenko's 17 years in power.

Back to the top The movement was largely silenced in the state crackdown of 2009.

But those leaders were later purged, and the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989 ensued.