Crackdown News

Egypt has now denied licenses to eight U.S.-based non-profit groups to operate in the country. They state they are violating the country's sovereignty.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he will ban pornography if elected president. He said America is suffering a "pandemic" of pornography, and that it is "toxic to marriages," and "contributes to misogyny and violence against women."

London - The sense of turbulence and unrest in England is potentially going to be met with what several rights groups percieve as heavy-handed. Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed tactics are not ringing well with everybody and groups have begun to speak out.

Reports from China’s restive Xinjiang province are focusing on Friday prayers at mosques, a possible source of further unrest. The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) reports authorities plan a ”fierce crackdown.”

Proving police claims that cannabis-dealing coffeeshops draw violent criminals, a mayor 's life was threatened when he ordered a coffeeshop closed down Thursday. After years of tolerating drugs-tourists, the Dutch now are cracking down hard.

The news that a 13-year-old South African girl sold nude photographs of herself at $17 each via the instant messaging service MXit, had local police rush out an awareness campaign about its dangers. Teens are often recruited like this by sex-slavery gangs

As part of a six state crackdown, Immigration agents raided a Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee and West Virginia. The Arkansas action is to go after those providing fake identification for illegal immigrant workers.

China is continuing it's crackdown of offending content that might cast anything negative on adolescents receptive mental health, by banning all things that are scary in video and audio content. All of this, of course, is an effort to impress the world.

Do online games cause juvenile crime? China believes they do, which is why its police are cracking down on illegal websites, computer markets and Internet cafes in an effort to quash youth crime.

When business is at hand, Cosa Nostra counted solely on fear, but that's going to change. In a rebellion against the Sicilian Mafia from its century-old roots, businesses have joined together to refuse demands for "protection money" called "pizzo."