51.   Freedoms of speech and assembly are widely recognized, and the news media is vigorous and unafraid to criticize national leaders.

52.   Freedoms of speech and assembly are widely recognized, and the Thai press has become increasingly robust and willing to criticize national leaders.

53.   From Australia to Ireland, church leaders have been criticized for protecting priests who sexually abused boys and girls without punishment, often for decades.

54.   Fox has criticized PAN leaders in the past for being too quick to compromise with the PRI.

55.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze on Monday criticized the leader of the breakaway province of Abkhazia for rejecting an agreement to allow ethnic Georgian refugees to return to the region.

56.   He criticized Western leaders for visiting Moscow for consultations, then going ahead with airstrikes anyway.

57.   He declined to criticize Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

58.   He criticized Conservative leader William Hague for conducting a referendum on the European currency in advance of the party conference next month, saying it would only exacerbate divisions.

59.   He criticized Taliban leaders for banning women from jobs and schools as part of their version of Islamic law.

60.   INLA commanders have criticized Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams for joining in negotiations which they say have no chance of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.