In July 2014, protests erupted over a government decision to close Freedom Park, leading to violent clashes, and tear gas and batons being deployed.
In 2009, a silt build up on the Elk River threatened to close Freedom's main transportation route for the chemicals at its Etowah Terminal, the one that spewed poison earlier this month.
Under Todor Zhivkov, labour camps are closed, some freedom of expression is tolerated and the persecution of the church is ended.
If we're journalists, we push back against every door that closes on freedom of information.
We're in an arms race now from the NSA to the Chinese government, tying to close down freedom of expression, and use social media against itself," he said.
Consolidation of newspaper ownership has forced some smaller papers to close, says Freedom House.
His last speech, against any diminution of an empire based on freedom, closed a political career that had become devoted to a reconciliation of imperial power with constitutional liberty.
Instead, it published positive news stories and editorials, including one on the front page under the headline "President needs our maximum support". Had the paper's brief window of freedom closed?
Freedom closed the Los Angeles Register in September, a few months after it had reduced publication of the Long Beach Register to Sundays only.
And they close the freedom-of-choice loophole as far as it is possible to do so.
