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From Bridget Johnson, for About.com

New 'Predators of Press Freedom' Added to List

Sunday May 4, 2008
Reporters Without Borders keeps a list of the world's greatest press-freedom offenders, and renovated the listing just in time for this past Saturday's World Press Freedom Day.

Off the list are the now-retired Fidel Castro (his brother Raul is on the list), Pervez Musharraf (now countered by an opposition parliament), Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (who released imprisoned journalists), Swaziland’s King Mswati III (who's been a good boy), Young Patriots leader Charles Blé Goudé in Côte d’Ivoire (who's stopped calling for journalists' hides).

On the list are:

  • Hamas and Fatah armed forces in the Palestinian territories

  • Israeli Defense Forces

  • Gurbangouly Berdymukhammedov, Turkmenistan president

  • Al-Shabaab (Somalia)

  • Mogadishu governor and mayor Mohamed Dhere (Somalia)

  • Mohamed Warsame Darwish (Somali security director)

  • Gotabhaya Rajapakse, secretary of state for defense in Sri Lanka

  • Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Tamil Tigers

  • Armed groups in Nepal

(Photo of Fatah gunman by Abid Katib/Getty Images)

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