Sentence examples for draconian crackdown from inspiring English sources

If the government had been playing a more effective oversight role, the situation would have never got to the point where there was a draconian crackdown on mining.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International branded the move part of an "on-going draconian crackdown which is squeezing the life out of civil society".

As a member of the county's Politics and Law Committee he also helped lead a draconian crackdown on crime, part of a nationwide attack on "Spiritual Pollution".

In a draconian crackdown in 1992, Mr. Fujimori disbanded Congress and the Supreme Court and established the special antiterrorism courts, which convicted thousands of people of aiding rebels.

Contrast with Barcelona, where a draconian crackdown in 2004 caused the disappearance of much graphic and performance art from the streets.

After the release of Hijazi, Sisi intensified a draconian crackdown on journalists and aid groups in Egypt in advance of elections next year.

A criminal investigator for condemned prisoners said that Woodford, "though a hero in the rest of the prison, is loathed on death row because of her draconian crackdowns".

Some of the nations that have been criticized by the West for their own draconian crackdowns on inconvenient freedoms of speech have watched Britain's recent struggles with barely disguised glee.

That repressive governments have been able to use laws similar to those in the UK to implement such draconian crackdowns on the freedom of their citizens has rightly raised questions about whether our politicians have too much power over the internet.

(Within hours the Russian government had announced even more draconian crackdowns on citizen's right to assemble, protest and demonstrate).

Unrest in the former princely kingdom, the only Muslim-majority state in largely Hindu India, prompted a draconian security crackdown in the late 1980s.