| Show I tnt clip ii -- if ?Bttf iVlfilV fy ttif! 5 Jintao China Ags 61 2C02 In £0 In pever since 1S95 LAST YEAR'S RANK: 2 MENTION 38 years moving up the Communist Party hierarchy nrnvinCT Arabia LAST YEAR'S RANK: Hu spent Jiflttf iW4ilJ!i§t¥ - Crown Prince Abdullah Saudi power since DISHONORABLE j Ifs- himsplf pffiriVnr anH willing to do whatever was neces- sary to advance himself Now as Abdullah has been the acting leader of Saudi Arabia since his King Fahd suffered a stroke in 1995 Saudi Arabia holds no elections half-broth-er whatsoever The royal family has promised municipal elections next year but has not announced if women will be allowed to vote It is forbidden for unrelated r His regime controls all mediauses onlinespies executes 4000 a year the party Hu is the leader of an unusually repressive regime Apologists point to China's economic liberalization and say its human-right- s situation "is better than it used to be" However the party still controls all media and uses 30000 "Internet security agents" to monitor online use More than 300000 Chinese are sentences in labor camps serving China carries out in excess of 4000 executions a year more than all other nations combined a woman cannot testify in divorce proceedtestifies for her In court cases the testia man ings mony of one man is equal to that of two women According to the US State Department Saudi Arabia continues to engage in arbitrary arrests and torture DurGenerally LAST YEAR'S RANK: DSSiSOPvQRAELE MENTION war of liberation Mugabe was elected indeAfter leading an pendent Zimbabwe's first prime minister with widespread domestic and international support In recent years he has become increasingly dictatorial According to Human Rights Forum Mugabe's government has killed or tor anti-coloni- --'-- al Tsodoro Obiang Nguoma Equatorial Gusnoa Aga 6i In povvsr since 1979 C PARADE i February 22 2004 A PAGE S won 42 of the vote anyway Mugabe had him arrested and charged with treason As his support has slipped Mugabe has played the race card confiscating farms owned by whites and giving them to his supporters last year's rank: 6 This tiny West African nation was a forgotten dictatorship until major reserves of oil were discovered in 1995 Since then US oil companies have poured bil lions of dollars into the country Although the per capita income is $4500 a year 60 of the people live on less than $1 a day AS Re qrOWS i v rl fllS Oll-HC- tured and displaced more than 70000 While allowing elections he has restricted opponents' ability to campaign and shut down media that don't support him When opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai J fa ) conference in October Saudi authoring a human-right- s ities arrested nonviolent protesters calling for freedom of expression some were sentenced to be flogged Robert Klugab® Zimbabw Ag3 £0 In power sfec© 1SS0 'X people live Thebulkoftheoilin-- i come goes directly into the US bank account of President Obiang who has declared "There is no poverty in Guinea'' Rather "The people are used to living in a different way" In July state radio announced that Obiang "is in permanent contact with the Almighty" and "can decide to kill with- on$laday it-i- — Vfft rm— fcJ out anyone calling him to account and without There is little public transportation no daily newspapers of government spending goes to health care going to HelL and only 1 continued |
