To win the Olympics, the Chinese government agreed to relax restrictions on foreign reporters, but China is still the world's leading jailer of journalists.
According to the New York-based organization Committee to Protest Journalists, Iran is now the "world's top jailer of journalists, " with at least 30 reporters and bloggers in prison.
The only former Khmer Rouge leader to have been successfully prosecuted was chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in running the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of inmates were killed.