Crackdown

Sudan: At least 5 killed in crackdown on anti-coup protests

This brings to 20 the number of people killed in anti-coup protests since military takeover on October 25.

Iran's president criticizes arrests of journalists, which he himself had promised to stop before election.

Islamic Jihad accuses PA security forces of arresting and harassing its members in Judea and Samaria.

Bulgarian security forces raid homes and a mosque in southern Bulgaria, in a special operation aimed at uncovering radical Islamists.

British government will order a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and a network of Islamist groups accused of fuelling extremism.

Egypt seizes supermarket chain and department store, both owned by leaders of banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Eight years after their arrest, a Riyadh court sentences 33 suspected Islamist terrorists to up to 30 years in prison.

Egypt's crackdown on Islamists continues, judge hands down 10-year jail terms to 126 Brotherhood supporters.