It started its crackdown on smoking in 2005, at a time when 40 per cent of adults smoked.
Any agreement must include enforceable commitments from it to reverse its crackdown on media freedom and civil liberties.
With the IRS pouring staff into its crackdown on marketed schemes, do-it-yourself fiddlers still run a low risk of audit.
On Wednesday, the government opened a new front in its crackdown on the press, announcing that it would formally bring twenty journalists to trial.
It has so far enjoyed considerable support for its crackdown on Mr. Morsi's Islamist supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood, whom it describes as violence-prone extremists.
What those steps might be remains as uncertain as it has been since Mr. Assad's government began its crackdown on popular dissent early last year.
It only encourages the regime to be more blatant in its crackdown on human rights".
The all-seeing, all-hearing Chinese government extended its crackdown on dissent, blocking Western websites as ruthlessly as it locks up the regimes domestic critics.
The government maintained its crackdown on citizens as well.
The government intensified its crackdown on critics and opponents.
International human rights groups have criticized Bahrain's use of force in its crackdown on dissent.
