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Probably the United States. They don't like no one to do anything against them
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http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/WoW09/WOW%202009.pdf China, cuba, iran.... plus plenty of others.
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It's much easier to list the countries that DO allow dissent against the government. The USA, Canada, most of Western Europe. Those in countries I didn't list who know their government to permit dissent can add their countries to the list.
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Well most countries, Try burning the flag outside a goverment building... See what happens
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in arab countries.5
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It's important to bear in mind that your question contained the word 'crime'. This implies it is expressly and legally forbidden to do so. By that definition, some of the countries others have mentioned are actually wrong answers. Of course, there are many more countries that profess to allow criticism but in practise do not, but that's a different issue.
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All of them. You need a "permit" to exercise your right to criticize your government in the United States. It is time to start breaking that law by the billions if we ever except to have a real democracy.
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The totalitarian fascist ones? ;-)
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Iran is in the news for it. Arresting people who criticized the election. And you could get charged with "Treason" in the US during a time of war - that law is still "on the books".
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It used to be illegal to criticize the government in America. The First Amendment said that the government could not prevent you from making political speech, but they were free to punish you for it afterward. It was on this basis that Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. (which Thomas Jefferson declared to be unconstitutional (this was before Marbury v. Madison)). Much later on the activist, left-learning justices on the Supreme Court decided to legislate from the bench by saying that such laws would have a "chilling effect" on free speech and were thus unconstitutional.
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