Do Muoi is ranked 10th among the world's "Top 25 Enemies of Press Freedom" by Reporters Sans Frontieres. According to RSF, more than half the 185 countries that belong to the United Nations do not respect press freedom, and "some use all kinds of repression and intimidation to silence dissenting voices."

The Top 25 infamous leaders are listed as follows:

1. Chinese Premier Li Peng
2. Mu'ammar al Kadhafi ofLibya
3. Kim Jong-il of North Korea
4. President Saparmurad Niyazov of Turkmenistan
5. Cuban President Fidel Castro
6. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
7. President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan
8. General Than Shwe of Myanmar (Burma)
9. President Hafez el-Assad of Syria
10. Communist Party Secretary-General Do Muoi of Vietnam
11. Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea
12. Fahd Ibn Abdelaziz al-Saoud of Saudi Arabia
13. General Sani Abacha of Nigeria
14. President Emomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan
15. President Haidar Aliyev of Azerbaijan
16. President Meles Zanawi of Ethiopia
17. Indonesian President Suharto
18. President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Beshir of Sudan
19. President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia
20. Algerian President Liamine Zeroual
21. President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Montenegro
22. President Alexander Lukachenko of Belarus
23. President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya
24. President Frederick Chiluba of Zambia
25. Turkish President Suleyman Demirel

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