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Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following renewed ethnic violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the regional government has announced.

Since January 1st all death sentences have had first to be approved by the Supreme People's Court a practice that had been suspended after the launch of China's "strike hard" crackdown on crime in 2003, when publicly admitted executions soared to more than 7,000.

When Mr Bo was the party boss of Chongqing and launched the "singing red songs and hard crackdown on criminals" campaign to boost his credentials, Mr Zhou showed up in the city in 2010 to sing its leader's praises.

Despite the hard crackdown and official ban, the protests continued.

Meanwhile, six days after two congressmen proposed a bill to lighten the embargo on Mar. 12, 2003, Castro launched his hardest crackdown on dissidents in years, imprisoning 75.

But Prince Nayef rejects the notion, saying the only way to talk with them was with "rifles and swords".Such words worry liberal Saudis, who fear that too hard a crackdown will prolong strife and imperil reform.

Today's results provide the first good news in months to the reformers, who have been battered by a hard-line crackdown aimed at rolling back the hugely popular reforms initiated by Mr. Khatami since he took office in 1997.

Reformers maintain that the hard-line crackdown on newspapers and activists could be an attempt to provoke riots that would bring troops into the streets, create a state of national emergency and thus buy the hard-liners more time to maneuver.

In a letter intended to add credibility to the hard-line crackdown, Sahabi--who spent about 15 years in prison under the shah--confessed to working with the United States to topple the Islamic system.

PartyGaming, whose shares are traded in London, was once the world's largest Internet poker site, but it was hit hard by a crackdown in the United States on online gambling that was passed into law in 2006.

Trump's policy change wasn't the only factor in the Vietnamese crackdown — hard-liners had become dominant in the Communist Party and were concerned about a rise in social activism and protests.