China didn't make the cut for our 10 most censored countries. While the Chinese Communist Party's censorship apparatus is notorious, journalists and Internet users work hard to overcome the restrictions. Nations like Eritrea and North Korea lack that dynamism.
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Bangladesh
On February 11, two Bangladeshi television journalists, Meherun Runi and her husband Golam Mustofa Sarowar, were murdered in their Dhaka home. Their 5-year-old son found their bodies. No arrests have yet been made and no motive has been publicly disclosed, although police claim they know why the couple was killed. Journalists have plenty of reason to be skeptical, and they staged a nationwide strike today to call attention to the case.
In the last decade, the growth of print and electronic media
and a new generation of journalists have changed the face of the media in
An excerpt
from Marked for Death: Dying for the
Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places, by Terry Gould:
At first glance there is nothing particularly threatening
about
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