Reporters Without Borders ranked Belarus 154th out of 178 countries in its 2010 Press Freedom Index.

In the 2011 Freedom House Freedom of the Press report, Belarus scored 92 on a scale from 10 ( most free ) to 99 ( least free ), because the Lukashenko regime systematically curtails press freedom.

* Freedom Evolves ( Viking Press 2003 ) ( ISBN 0-670-03186-0 )

* Peter Kropotkin Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, 1998 paperback, London: Freedom Press.

The " Worldwide Press Freedom Index ", published by Reporters Without Borders, lists Maldives as a " very serious situation " ( a judgment also given to Libya, Cuba, and China ).

* World Press Freedom Day ( International )

*" President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients ", a news release from the White House Press Secretary, December 15, 2006, containing a transcript of President George W. Bush's opening remarks at the December 15, 2006, presentation ( with link to individual citations ).

* " Medal of Freedom Ceremony " ( August 12, 2009 ), a news release, August 12, 2009, from the White House Press Secretary at whitehouse. gov, the White House's official website.

Reporters Without Borders ranks Romania 58th in its Worldwide Press Freedom Index, the same level as Poland and Hong-Kong.

Reporters Without Borders ranked Singapore 140th out of 167 countries in its 2005 Press Freedom Index.

Together with seven other European nations, Switzerland leads the 2005 index on Freedom of the Press published by Reporters Without Borders ( with a score 0. 5 points, zero being the perfect score ).

* December 2 – Sweden introduces its Freedom of the Press Act, becoming the first country of the world to protect freedom of the press in the Constitution, and the first country in the world to grant a wide-ranging freedom of information.

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery And Freedom, 1777 – 1827 Louisiana State Univ Press, 2006.

The sole exception, since 1815, is in cases involving freedom of the press, prosecuted under Chapter 7 of the Freedom of the Press Act, part of Sweden's constitution.

The first of these, the Freedom Seder, was written by Arthur Waskow, published in Ramparts magazine and in a small booklet by the Micah Press and in a later edition ( 1970 ) by Holt-Rinehart-Winston, and was actually performed on April 4, 1969, the first anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the third night of Passover, at Lincoln Memorial Temple in Washington, DC.

* H. Englund, Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights & the Africa Poor, University of California Press, 2006

* McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, illustrated ed., Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-515901-2.

Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South ( University Press of Mississippi ; 2010 ); 176 pages.

Freedom of the Press and Freedom of the Net, which monitor censorship, intimidation and violence against journalists, and public access to information, are among its other signature reports.

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Freedom, California: The Crossing Press.

The Institute is affiliated with the Legion for the Survival of Freedom and Noontide Press.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In March 2009, U. S. District Court Judge Panner ruled in favor of the Santo Daime, acknowledging its protection from prosecution under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The MFP began lobbying Congress in 1990, and in 1991 Senator Brock Adams ( D-Washington ) and Rep. Barbara Boxer introduced the Military Freedom Act, legislation to end the ban completely.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

" The FBI is in process of moving its Records Management Division, which processes Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) requests, to Winchester, Virginia.

It is possible to obtain a copy of an FBI file on oneself, on a living person who gives you permission to do so, or on a deceased individual, through the U. S. Freedom of Information Act.

* FBI Disclosures under Freedom of Information Act

A recently declassified document obtained by The Black Vault Freedom of Information Act archive shows that hypnosis was investigated for military applications.

* 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law.

In February 2005, it was reported that Major and Norman Lamont delayed the release of papers on Black Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act.

A 25-year battle by historian Jon Wiener under the Freedom of Information Act ( United States ) | Freedom of Information Act eventually resulted in the release of documents like this one.

According to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the average commuter on the Metropolitan line in 2006 wasted three days, 10 hours and 25 minutes due to delays.

* 1983 – The U. S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( ultimately found to be 4. 2 million pounds ), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

The Burma Freedom and Democracy Act ( BFDA ), passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2003, includes a ban on all imports from Burma, a ban on the export of financial services to Burma, a freeze on the assets of certain Burmese financial institutions, and extended visa restrictions on Burmese officials.

Due to its particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the United States has designated Burma a Country of Particular Concern ( CPC ) under the International Religious Freedom Act.

* 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U. S. President Bill Clinton.

The relevant UK laws include: Data Protection Act 1998 ; Freedom of Information Act 2000 ; Environmental Information Regulations 2004 ; Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.

" To protect the complainant, the FDA deleted names in the original complaint in its responses to requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

Freedom of Information Act inquiries by the National Security Archive and other investigators unearthed a number of documents showing that White House officials, including Oliver North, knew about and supported using money raised via drug trafficking to fund the Contras.

In 1993, the Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( RFRA ), which sought to restore the compelling interest requirement applied in Sherbert and Yoder.

the Benjamin Franklin True Patriot Act, and the Security and Freedom Ensured Act ( SAFE ), none of which passed.