Myanmar Has The Greatest Repression Of Bloggers

A new report names and shames the countries with the greatest restrictions for citizen journalists.

Myanmar – the country formerly known as Burma – has been judged the most restrictive country for bloggers, according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The junta ruling Myanmar blocked all Internet access for a while during uprisings in 2007.

Coming second on the list is Iran, where blogger Omid Mir Sayafi died in Tehran’s Evin jail. He’d allegedly insulted the country’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his blog.

Among the other countries named and shamed in the report are Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt, where over 100 bloggers were arrested last year.