Increasingly, Chavez used legislation to clamp down on broadcasters and other media.

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Many protesters are calling for the removal of the royal family, whom they blame for the country's high unemployment rate and for running a corrupt government that relies on torture and other harsh measures to clamp down on dissent.

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"Countries need to co-operate with each other on investigations, proceedings and ultimately prosecutions" to clamp down on the criminal practice, she told MEPs.

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Police, environmental inspectors and other state agencies are being pressed to work together more closely to clamp down on illegal logging.

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Other companies worry about losing valuable intellectual property rights if they don't clamp down on players.

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He is proposing a further clamp-down on asylum-seekers: per person, Switzerland gets far more refugee applications than any other sizeable European country.

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Last year, three prominent blogs emerged to highlight what they described as the extravagant spending habits of top Communist Party officials as the local economy stumbled, prompting Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to launch a campaign to clamp down on dissent after he instructed party officials to limit spending on lavish weddings, among other things.

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