• More access for foreign reporters, tighter rules for local assistants.
• As online use grows, government censors sites, jails critics.
24: Journalists jailed as of December 1, 2009.
While China’s ruling communist party celebrated 60 years in power in 2009, its critics commemorated antigovernment movements in Tibet in 1949 and Tiananmen Square in 1989. Government agencies used a security apparatus strengthened for the 2008 Olympics to restrict dissenting voices during all three landmark anniversaries.




