Sentence examples for crackdowns on religious from inspiring English sources

The State Department concluded today that despite seven years of deepening American economic engagement with China, the human rights situation there had worsened significantly, with "intensified crackdowns" on religious organizations, political dissenters and "any person or group perceived to threaten the government".

It was released in 2009 – the year that the Tibetan self-immolations started in earnest, largely as a result of severe crackdowns on religious freedom and suffocating surveillance by government authorities on the monasteries.

Many of its leading members, Leverett among them, opposed the colonial crackdowns on religious dissenters.

Since the crackdown on religious extremists began in January, many people have died in sectarian terrorism in Karachi.

Aziz was found guilty of "deliberate murder and crimes against humanity" over a crackdown on religious parties in the 1980s and was sentenced to death in October 2010.

As my guidebook said, it's worthwhile keeping in mind that the building of handsome Baroque Vienna coincided with a Counter-Reformation crackdown on religious dissent.

The broken Atakhamov household, one set of victims in what human rights organizations describe as a sustained crackdown on religious freedom in Uzbekistan, illustrates the risks of an American gamble.

In recent months, the number of attacks against security personnel has increased amid a broader official crackdown on religious and cultural practices, which China's leaders worry fuel Uighur separatism.Only recently has violence looked like spreading to other parts of the country.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 — The federal authorities said Monday that the deporting of a Mexican woman who had sought refuge in churches while being an advocate for illegal immigrant families had not signaled a crackdown on religious groups that provide aid to illegal immigrants.

In 2011 the Central Asian dictatorship of Kazakhstan initiated a concerted crackdown on religious believers of all sorts.

When Oliver Cromwell consolidated his control over England in the early 1650s, he began a crackdown on religious communities that dissented from his religious views.