crackdown

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Appeared in the January 21, 2026, print edition as 'Iran’s Regime Defends Its Crackdown'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

In 2015, hundreds of activists and rights lawyers were arrested in what later became known as the 709 Crackdown, named after July 9, the day it was launched.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

While I didn’t complete everything in those early Assassin’s Creed games, or in the original Crackdown or Infamous, I did spend a lot of time doing pretty much everything the games had to offer.

From The Verge • Jan. 19, 2020

Brash and bombastic, the Crackdown 3 sizzle reel was too confusing to make much sense of.

From Time • Jun. 11, 2017

The trial of Knight Lightning, which occurred on July 24-27, 1990, was the crucial show-trial of the Hacker Crackdown.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce