Vietnam
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Disturbing panorama of continuing media decline
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Journalism in Libya
Birth of “free media" in eastern Libya
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Africa
State broadcaster back on the air, but presenter still detained
Radio presenter facing possibly death penalty on treason charge
Radio Simba presenter gunned down in Mogadishu
Americas
Police name journalist’s alleged killers, confirm reporting was (...)
Judge refuses to hold CIA in contempt of court for destroying torture (...)
Reporters Without Borders asks the Oakland Police Department to apologize (...)
Asia
French-Vietnamese blogger sentenced to three years in prison
Blogger released from prison but placed under residential surveillance
Irrawaddy informs the world about Burma
Europe & ex-USSR
Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up
Heavy fines for two independent newspapers
Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent
Internet
Middle East & North Africa
Alarming statement and constant harassment offer no respite for (...)
Arab Spring and repression continue from Rabat to Manama
Government develops “National Internet” to combat international Internet’s (...)
PRESS FREEDOM BAROMETER 2011
36 Journalists killed
3 media assistants killed
147 journalists imprisoned
9 media assistants imprisoned
123 netizens imprisoned
Issaias Afeworki
Yahya Jammeh
Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Paul Kagame
Islamist militias
Mswati III
Robert Mugabe
Mullah Mohammad Omar
Thein Sein
Hu Jintao
Kim Jong-il
Choummaly Sayasone
Private militias
Gotabhaya Rajapakse
Nguyen Phu Trong
Ilham Aliev
Alexander Lukashenko
ETA
Organised crime
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Islam Karimov
Ramzan Kadyrov
Vladimir Putin
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
King Abdallah Ibn Al-Saud
Hamas security forces in Gaza
The Palestinian Authority’s security forces
King Hamad Ben Aissa Al Khalifa
Ali Khamenei
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Israel Defence Forces
Muammar Gaddafi
Bashar Al-Assad
Ali Abdallah Saleh
“Black Eagles”
Raúl Castro
Miguel Facussé Barjum, businessmen and landowner
Sinaloa, Gulf and Juárez cartels
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Check out the new list of the Enemies of the Internet, released every year on World Day Against Cybercensorship.
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