10 Most Censored Countries 2012

The Committee to Protect Journalists(CPJ), a non profit organization based in New York , conducted a research and listed the top 10 censored countries based on the censorship on media.Here is the list

Rank	Country	Ruler
1.	Eritrea	Isaias Afewerki
2.	North Korea	Kim Jong Un
3.	Syria	Bashar al-Assad
4.	Iran	Ayatollah Ali Khamenei& Ahmadinejad
5.	Equatorial Guinea	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
6.	Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov
7.	Burma	Thein Sein
8.	Saudi Arabia	King Abdullah
9.	Cuba	Raul Castro
10.	Belarus	Aleksandr Lukashenko

These rulers and their officials uses tactics like refusing visa,travel bans,raids on independent newsroom,prepublishing censorship requirements,restricted photography or filming,jamming satellite signals,website hacking and blocking of websites to prevent the media from publishing anything against them.

The runners list includes China,Turmenistan,Ethiopia,Vietnam,Sudan and Azerbaijan.