A crackdown is being launched against garish shopfronts turning a historic high street into a “second-class Las Vegas”.

Source: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/historic-high-street-now-resembles-second-class-las-vegas-281869/

A crackdown on German diplomats, officers and agents ensued — some were tried, convicted and sent to McNeil Island federal penitentiary on Puget Sound, though not for the Seattle blast.

Source: https://crosscut.com/mossback/2023/11/mossbacks-northwest-day-germany-bombed-seattle

A full 25 years later, Mission Local reported this past October that SFPD was vowing a sex-work crackdown on Capp Street as part of DA Brooke Jenkins’s “new sheriff in town” PR blitz.

Source: https://sfist.com/2023/02/03/capp-street-will-be-barricaded-off-over-concerns-theres-too-many-sex-workers-strolling/

A local law banning rentals for less than 30 days except under strict exemptions went into effect early this month, and the controversial crackdown has triggered a plunge in short-term rentals on the platform in one of the company’s largest markets.

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/09/21/airbnb-chief-predicts-no-quick-fix-to-new-york-clampdown/

Also Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the firing of all the heads of regional military draft boards, part of his crackdown on corruption since the outbreak of Russia's war in Ukraine more than 17 months ago.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/11/evacuations-in-northeastern-ukraine-amid-russian-advances

Although some “political re-education” camps appear closed, there has been no mass release from prisons, where a Turkic Muslims have been held since the start of the crackdown.

Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/31/china-unrelenting-crimes-against-humanity-targeting-uyghurs

A military coup in February 2021 plunged the Southeast Asian nation into chaos and widespread violence as the military junta launched a bloody crackdown on dissent.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20230801-myanmar-s-ousted-leader-suu-kyiv-has-some-of-her-prison-sentences-reduced

A military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh, with harrowing stories emerging of murder, rape and arson.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20230519-myanmar-reports-145-deaths-caused-by-cyclone-mocha-most-among-rohingya

Amritpal Singh was on the run since March 18 after the Punjab police launched a crackdown following the storming of the Ajnala police station by his supporters to secure the release of an arrested associate.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/live-updates-fugitive-amritpal-singh-surrenders-before-punjab-police-in-moga-say-sources-3971466

And the inaugural China-Central Asia summit in May produced several trade agreements and stronger support for domestic policies like the Xinjiang crackdown on Uyghurs, says Niva Yau, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s global China hub.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/17/hes-had-a-bad-summer-xi-faces-calls-to-loosen-grip-as-chinas-crises-mount

A pubic spaces protection order (PSPO) has been in place since 2020, and runs out this year, with the council set to approve the crackdown for another year.

Source: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/crackdown-rotherham-dog-owners-dog-28092801

A security force crackdown that followed saw over 500 people killed and more than 22,000 people detained.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/in-iran-snap-checkpoints-and-university-purges-mark-the-first-anniversary-of-mahsa-amini-protests/

As part of a nationwide crackdown, the NIA officials on Saturday picked up a terror suspect from his apartment in Pulakeshinagar for his alleged links with the inter-State terror module part of the ISIS network.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nia-picks-up-terror-suspect-in-bengaluru/article67621603.ece

As part of the crackdown, 44 dealers implicated in distribution of spurious liquor have been arrested in Tiruvarur district.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/political-police-illicit-liquor-toll-tamil-nadu-8610913/

Australia to ban Nazi symbols in crackdown on ‘evil’

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/2023/06/07/the-lost-flowers-alice-heart-sigourney-weaver/

Authorities are taking the crackdown on freedoms in Russia to new levels following Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine, with independent media shut down and most key opposition figures behind bars or in exile.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/kremlin-critic-navalny-good-mood-third-birthday-behind-bars.1035740

Back alleys in Middlesbrough have been given a new lease of life thanks to a town centre crackdown.

Source: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/fly-tipping-overflowing-bins-cleared-27927963

Beijing has seldom acknowledged the events on June 4, and when it does so the governmentтАЩs crackdown on the movement is justified for what it sees as unnecessary protests.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/everyday-explainers/hong-kong-activists-tiananmen-square-history-8645534/

Beijing has so far not directly bailed out any private Chinese developer despite some of them coming to the brink of collapse since the property crisis hit the economy in 2021, after a regulatory crackdown on developers’ accumulation of debts.

Source: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/09/02/explainer-country-garden-how-bad-2/

Benefit claimants could have their bank accounts and social media activity monitored as the Department for Work and Pensions continues its crackdown on fraud.

Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/dwp-benefit-claimants-could-bank-26897944