11.   Consul General Boucher called for early elections for a new legislature and said he hoped new civil liberties laws would not be used to stifle freedom.

12.   Croatian authorities have been regularly accused by western governments of trying to stifle media freedom.

13.   Estrada insisted that he will not stifle press freedom and the press is free to criticize him and his administration.

14.   He has insisted he will not stifle press freedom, and says the press is free to criticize him and his administration.

15.   He also has stifled press freedoms and cracked down on the nationalist opposition, tightly controlling their activities.

16.   In their closing statement, prosecutors called the attack an atrocious crime intended to stifle freedom of speech, Kyodo News reported.

17.   Lukashenko has stifled press freedoms and cracked down on the nationalist opposition, tightly controlling their activities.

18.   Liberal politicians gathered at a rally Saturday to accuse the government of Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov of stifling press freedoms and rolling back economic reforms.

19.   Many perceive the case against Gusinsky as a Kremlin-ordered attempt to stifle media freedoms in Russia.

20.   Sheremet, who is Belarusian, blamed President Alexander Lukashenko, who has increasingly stifled press freedom in Belarus.