21.   The authoritarian Lukashenko has increasingly stifled press freedom in the country.

22.   The three main newspapers have been highly critical of the government and have accused President Kim Dae-jung of using the tax investigation to stifle press freedom.

23.   The three main newspapers, which are highly critical of government policies, have accused President Kim Dae-jung of using the tax investigation to stifle press freedom.

24.   The Singapore government has been criticized abroad for using legal processes such as libel and defamation lawsuits to stifle freedom of speech and intimidate the political opposition.

25.   U.S. Consul General Richard Boucher, the top American official in Hong Kong, said he hoped new civil liberties laws would not stifle freedom.

26.   A Shiite Moslem cleric said Thursday he had been deported to Syria by Bahraini authorities which he accused of wanting to stifle freedom of expression.

27.   Both the government and the Islamic groups had also helped to stifle freedoms of expression, the group charged.

28.   Democractic governments were relying on oppressive tools inherited from their dictatorial predeccessors to stifle freedom of expression and media.