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The censorship comes amid a growing crackdown on websites.

They argued that their conviction was part of a growing crackdown on free speech and political activism in Russia.

In the discussions, Mr. Posner said, American officials raised special concerns about a growing crackdown on lawyers who defend human rights advocates and dissidents.

Victor Homola (NYT) SERBIA: MEDIA CRACKDOWN -- In a growing crackdown on the independent news media, officials shut TV Pirot, a small station, and seized its transmission equipment.

The growing crackdown on officials in Mr. Luzhkov's orbit has stirred a good deal of angst among developers in what remains the largest commercial-property construction market in Europe, trailed distantly by Paris.

It has not always worked: in recent months, as China's growing crackdown on domestic dissidents drew Mr. Huntsman's pointed objections, the efforts of the ambassador and other American diplomats have been angrily rejected by Beijing.

In February, Mr. Brigham, 44, proudly shed his pants at a Boulder City Council meeting before stepping up to speak out against what he said was a growing police crackdown on public nudity.

The growing government crackdown on an entire industry full of hard-working, whatever-happens-behind-closed-doors-is-our-business professionals comes on the heels of the Amnesty International board's decision to make sex worker rights an issue of human rights, and part of their global advocacy efforts.

But murmurs of disquiet are growing as the crackdown widens to criminalise a broad range of dissent.

Coming on the heels of a suicide bombing in Grozny that fall, the attack raised concerns that the Islamic insurgency in Chechnya was again growing after a crackdown over the past decade by Kadyrov, who has been accused of using brutal methods in his effort to stamp out Islamic violence.

Erdoğan has launched a wide-ranging and ever-growing crackdown on perceived enemies of the state, leading to the detention of more than 36,000 people.