Sentence examples for crackdowns on press from inspiring English sources

Turkish journalists say local media outlets are facing one of the worst crackdowns on press freedoms since military rule in the 1980s.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the AKP government has waged one of the world's biggest crackdowns on press freedoms.

But journalists like Dundar and press advocates say that Erdogan's demands for truth and openness in the case belie the strategy he has used — ruthlessly and effectively — in one of the world's most sweeping crackdowns on press freedom.

Other authoritarian incidents from the campaign trail included vowing to reintroduce torture and urging the "taking out" of terrorists' families; promising crackdowns on press freedom; and encouraging thugs at his rallies to assault protestors.

Under the younger Park, South Korea has become a more illiberal place, her critics claim, as she sought to silence dissent with crackdowns on press freedoms, and threw her support behind police suppression of anti-government protests and the court-ordered dissolution of a minor leftwing party that was seen as pro-North Korean.

A Chinese newspaper has made an unprecedented front-page appeal for the release of one of its journalists, as the government continues a crackdown on press freedom.

Opposition figures blame the government for rising food prices and a crackdown on press freedom.

Journalists complained about an unprecedented crackdown on press freedom and police brutality.

"The UK is having what I think is a large crackdown on press freedoms.

Rights groups have harshly criticised the recent crackdown on press freedom in Turkey.

Harrison is asked about the crackdown on press freedom being matched by a less-reported "civil rights crackdown" on the Muslim community by one audience member.