Sentence examples for intense crackdown from inspiring English sources
When unrest swept North Africa and the Middle East last winter, the Party launched the most intense crackdown on free expression in years.
It has justified the intense crackdown by saying that Falun Gong discourages people from seeking medical care, leading to the death of 1,500 Chinese.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government, Evan Osnos wrote two weeks ago, has embarked on the most intense crackdown on free expression in years.
Beijing is in the midst of what I call the Big Chill, an ongoing sweep of Chinese writers, activists, lawyers, and others, which constitutes the most intense crackdown on expression in years.
The recent wave of attacks follows the attempted assassination last month of the Afghan intelligence chief, Asadullah Khalid, the architect of the agency's intense crackdown on militants over the past few months.
AMID their most intense crackdown on dissent in several years, the Chinese authorities have given a rare hint of softening in the case of one prominent activist, Ai Weiwei.
China executes more prisoners each year than all other countries combined, and by some estimates 10,000 people will be put to death this year as the government pursues one of its most intense crackdowns on crime in the last 25 years.
For Turkey's liberals and urban elite, including some among the young, middle-class protesters who camped out in Gezi Park in Taksim Square here, the intense police crackdown — the use of tear gas and water cannons, and the detention of protesters, lawyers, journalists and medics — represented the final and most painful break with Mr. Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party.
The Communist Party is currently engaging in its most intense online crackdown ever.
Instead, he's mulling construction of a special island specifically to house those who have fallen prey to an intense national crackdown on drugs.
Morsi's supporters hold near-daily protests that often turn violent, though the size of the demonstrations have dropped due to an intense security crackdown targeting Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.
