The Top Ten: World's Worst Dictators, 2006

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

World's Worst Dictators, 2006

	Name	Country	In Power Since
1.	Omar al-Bashir	Sudan	1989
2.	Kim Jong Il	North Korea	1994
3.	Than Shwe	Myanmar	1992
4.	Robert Mugabe	Zimbabwe	1980
5.	Islam Karimov	Uzbekistan	1990
6.	Hu Jintao	China	2002
7.	King Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	1995
8.	Saparmurat Niyazov	Turkmenistan	1990
9.	Seyed Ali Khamanei	Iran	1989
10.	Teodoro Obiang Nguema	Equatorial Guinea	1979

Prepared by David Wallechinsky for Parade after consultation with Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, Amnesty International, and Reporters without Borders.

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