The government has expelled 20 foreign Christian missionaries and warned Thursday it would take a tough line against proselytizers.
Sudan has expelled two foreign employees of the International Organization for Migration working in the country's Darfur region, the agency said Thursday.
Pakistan has expelled 18 foreign charities amid deepening suspicion that they are being used for spying in the aftermath of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Over the two decades of his rule, Mr. Karimov has expelled nearly all foreign journalists and aid workers, so reporting on the country tends to be fragmentary and based on uncertain sources of information.
The militant group, which despises foreign intervention, has expelled numerous international and local aid groups from the territory it controls.
At the same time, the regime has expelled some members of the foreign press, forbidden Iranian journalists from leaving their offices, and arrested major reformist figures, including the former Vice-President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the former member of parliament Behzad Nabavi, and the reformist political strategist Saeed Hajjarian.
Belarus has expelled Sweden's ambassador for "being too supportive of human rights," Foreign Minister Carl Bildt of Sweden said Friday.
He has expelled USAID and demanded that western-funded Russian non-governmental organisations brand themselves as "foreign agents" - a move straight from the KGB's playbook.
Saudi Arabia has expelled the Canadian ambassador and suspended new trade and investment with Ottawa after Canada's foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists.
Additionally, since 2006, the Ethiopian government has detained or expelled foreign correspondents from the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg News, the Christian Science Monitor, the Voice of America, and the Washington Post.
