1.   Could this be China, in which journalists are jailed for a decade for run-of-the-mill scoops and dissidents disappear for months or years?

2.   In the most celebrated cases, financial journalists have been jailed for trading on information contained in articles before they were published.

3.   Journalists have been jailed for reporting financial information which embarrassed the government.

4.   Some officials said the journalists had been jailed because their newspapers were financed by foreign governments.

5.   This week Parliament was set to pass measures allowing Mugabe to have journalists jailed merely for criticizing him, and opposition activists jailed merely for campaigning.

6.   A leading Iranian journalist has been jailed since June on charges of spying for the United States, an editor at his newspaper said Tuesday.

7.   A prosecutor had asked for the journalists to be jailed for three years.

8.   But Chavez insists there is full freedom of expression in Venezuela, arguing he has never censored or jailed any journalists.

9.   Chavez argues that press freedoms are intact because his government has never closed any media organizations or censored or jailed journalists.

10.   Chavez insists there is full freedom of expression in Venezuela and that, unlike previous administrations, his government has never censored or jailed journalists.