French privacy laws are among the strictest in Europe, prohibiting newspapers from "intruding on the private life of any person," publishing unauthorized photographs or "publicizing the real or imaginary liaisons of anybody."

The law does not specifically prohibit newspapers from releasing information about offenders.

Imposed in June 1986 after widespread violence in the black townships, the laws empower the Government to make arbitrary arrests and detentions, prohibit meetings, ban organizations and close newspapers.

In the United States, in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing "false, scandalous, or malicious writing" against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act.

Justice Ginsburg asked Mr. Rovelli to explain why the policy permitted inmates to order paperback books from the prison library while prohibiting newspapers and magazines.

He traveled to Denmark and successfully petitioned for the repeal of a 1779 law which prohibited independent newspapers and enforced strict censorship on all publications in the territory.

Nothing in it prohibits newspapers with unions - the Newspaper Association of America says a third of the nation's 1,556 daily newspapers are unionized - from retaining the overtime pay requirements in most of their contracts.

She co-sponsored a 2000 law, which articulated French policy on presumption of innocence in media by prohibiting magazines and newspapers from publishing photographs of accused individuals wearing handcuffs or other scenes which may "jeopardise a victim's dignity".

He prohibited independent newspapers, public speeches, town meetings or open discussion.

Bell prohibited local newspapers from printing any material unfavorable to the military and ordered the arrest of the entire staff of a newspaper whose editorial had offended him.