Sentence examples for systematic crackdown from inspiring English sources

In the pre-election period there was evidence of a systematic crackdown on government critics.

Israel began its systematic crackdown after the Palestinian factions, led by Hamas, carried out 16 suicide bombings in March 2002.

Mr. Gao, who was forced to burn copious amounts of his early work during China's systematic crackdown on intellectuals in the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, has always used writing as a liberation and a balm.

"This is the beginning of a systematic crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamists and other opponents of a military coup," said Emad Shahin, a professor of political science at the American University in Cairo.

Rallies and marches have been scheduled across four continents for Saturday following an appeal from Cairo-based activists who accuse army generals of launching a systematic crackdown on human rights in an effort to crush political change in the aftermath of this year's uprising, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak and left a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) in his place.

The BBC has obtained images of alleged police brutality against peaceful protesters in the Bahraini capital Manama, where fears of a systematic crackdown on pro-democracy activists are growing.

It is perhaps not surprising that in repressive regimes, security services and state owned companies engage in systematic crackdowns like this.

Samed Rahimli, a Baku-based lawyer who is defending some of those arrested, told the Guardian that the raids were bigger and more systematic than previous crackdowns in Azerbaijan.

"The crackdown is quite systematic, to create terror, real terror, among the people," said Aung Zaw, editor of the exile magazine Irrawaddy, who has maintained contacts in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

"This proactive approach is congruent with the Xi government's wider crackdown on civil society, which has been very strategic and systematic," she said.

The government then launched a crackdown on the opposition that included conducting thousands of arrests and systematic torture.