61.   Sudan allowed an independent newspaper to resume publication Monday after banning it for three weeks for printing articles critical of the Islamist government.

62.   The chief editor of one weekly newspaper was drafted into the army and later charged with offending the president for a critical article.

63.   The crackdown followed a government campaign last month to confiscate Shiite books from Cairo shops as well as critical articles in the Egyptian media about the minority Muslims.

64.   The empress last autumn suffered a breakdown attributed by palace officials to a deep depression caused by a series of unprecedented critical articles.

65.   The newspapers regularly publish articles critical of each other.

66.   The trial was the latest confrontation between independent journalists and officials who have started legal proceedings after the publication of critical articles.

67.   There are indications the critical articles are being ghostwritten for the tabloids, and the government is providing financial support for the papers by buying ads.

68.   They are bolder in writing about business, although the heads of state companies can sometimes get critical articles quashed.

69.   This was evident by the hundreds of participants who distributed critical articles on him.

70.   Under his rule, Palestinian newspapers have been temporarily shut down for publishing critical articles, and journalists and other human rights activists have been arrested.