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Chink appears in the Great Firewall of China

By John Hirst

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Chink appears in the Great Firewall of China

"A small hole was knocked yesterday through China's fearsome system of internet censorship and surveillance, known as the Great Firewall. After substantial international pressure, China unblocked access to the websites of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Radio Free Asia and the BBC Chinese language service, for foreign journalists covering the games in Beijing. These pages could be read yesterday in other parts of China, but access to sites devoted to Falun Gong, Tibet, Chinese dissidents and the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations remained closed".

This is a start, and given that China has bowed down to international pressure over this issue the pressure should not be let up until the Great Firewall of China is pulled down like the Berlin Wall. It is too easy for China to accommodate the IOC until after the Olympic games then repair the breach.

Beijing Olympics: Government U-turn ends ban on human rights websites

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on August 02, 2008 (boomark / email).

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