11.   Parliament Tuesday passed a new press law which abolishes a year-old code that journalists said was aimed at muzzling the press in Egypt.

12.   A bill intended to muzzle the press was also scheduled to be debated.

13.   Action against the paper was widely expected after it published details of an alleged Intelligence Ministry plot to muzzle the press.

14.   Activists called the law an attempt to muzzle the press.

15.   And in Iran, conservatives are preventing any real human rights reform by blocking legal liberalization and muzzling the press.

16.   Banharn has been accused of accepting bribes, evading taxes, muzzling the press and even faking his Thai citizenship.

17.   BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has accused the government of muzzling the press and harassing the journalists.

18.   But he has kept his vow to avoid trying to muzzle the press in the way that PRI presidents long did.

19.   Cynics argue that tolerating the stations provides the Palestinian government, which has been criticized for muzzling the press, a democratic veneer.

20.   Foreign journalists were credited with exposing corruption and human rights violations under Marcos when the Philippine press was muzzled under martial law.