1.Burma
Is a country with strict censorship of the print media and television, are now also beginning to restrict the activities of blogs and the Internet. Pressure for a private Internet users are very small-only about one percent according to the OpenNet Intiative, and many residents access the Internet through the cafe. However, the government has strict rules for the cafe with internet access, and even monitor the use of e-mails and other communications methods and close access from the site group of political opponents. At least two bloggers who went to prison, namely Maung Thura, which is popularly known as Zarnagar, because after the launch video of Cyclone Nargis, 2008.
2. Iran
This state authorities did not hesitate to detain a blogger who criticized the religious, political figures, the Islamic revolution and various symbols. The government asked all bloggers to register their site to the Ministry of Arts and Culture. The government claims to have shut down millions of sites. Recently, a special prosecutor's office handling the case the Internet and served in the intelligence set up. Blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi thrown in jail for insulting the country's spiritual leader, who died in Evin Prison in March.
3. Syria
Governments using filters to cover the politically sensitive sites. The blogger could be arrested if found to fill a site that makes allergy government. In 2008, the Ministry of Communications ordered Internet cafe owners to record every customer and how many times to use it and transmit this documentation regularly. Whaed al-Mhana, attorney for archaeological sites that are considered harmful, be examined in court for his criticism of the market explosion in the old city of Damascus.
4. Cuba
Only government officials and people who have a relationship with the Communist Party who can access the Internet. In general, people use the internet through the hotel or internet cafe tightly controlled government, which means it must pay dearly with a voucher. The government has jailed 21 online sites in the authors in this decade.
5. Saudi Arabia
About 400 thousand sites in the country closed in this kingdom, including those related to political, social or religious issues. The government will quickly shut down any of the cons with the state or its system. Blogger Ahmed al-Farhan imprisoned without trial for several months in 2007 and 2008 because the voice changes and release the political prisoners.
6. Vietnam
The blogger desperate attempt to fill the independent news that had been abandoned by the government-controlled traditional media. The Government responded by making the rules. Late last September, the famous blogger Nguyen Van Hai, known as Dieu Cay, was sentenced to 30 months in prison on charges of tax evasion. In a CPJ investigation showed that penalty as a reply from Nguyen's blog. In October 2008, the minister of information and communications create a new agency to monitor the Internet.
7. Tunis
All Internet traffic must pass through a central network, which makes the government can filter and monitor e-mail. Online writer Mohammed Abbou Slim Boukhdhir and have languished in prison for his writings.
8. China
Nearly 300 million people use the Internet-than any country in the world. But his government still had time to do the program for users of online censorship. Strict controls do and do not expect any e-mails are free from government monitoring. At least there are 24 writers in cyberspace has to go to jail. In 2008, the Office Cleaning Agency Pornography and Fighting Illegal Publications announced that it has removed more than two million sites are forbidden in this country the Bamboo Curtain.
9. Turkmenistan
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov opened the country's isolation from the world by providing access to the internet. However, first there are internet cafes in 2007, the army take care of half dead. Although the telecommunications network of MTS Russia, Turkmenistan and market entry began offering Internet access via mobile phones in June 2008, remained tight government control in an attempt to avoid any sites that criticize government.
10. Egypt
Almost all communication traffic over the Internet must pass through government-owned service Namely Egypt Telecom. Recorded at least 100 bloggers were arrested in 2008. Blogger Abdel Karim Suleiman, who is famous for Karim Amer, have languished four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
