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China: Academic arrested following publication of online articleDate:13/07/2009 The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Uyghur writer, academic and member of the Uyghur PEN Centre, Iham Tohti, who was reportedly arrested in Beijing on 6 July 2009...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Bloggers contained by police for online contentDate:20/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns actions by Chinese authorities to locate and detain bloggers and delete online content and debate concerning controversial issues...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: China Considers State Secrets Law RevisionDate:27/07/2009 On June 22, 2009, a draft revision of China’s Law on Guarding State Secrets was given a first reading at the Ninth Session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC)...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: China launches Arabic TV channelDate:27/07/2009 China has launched a 24-hour Arabic-language television channel aimed at addressing distorted views of China in the Middle East and North Africa...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: China's Green Dam finally cracksDate:18/08/2009 The Chinese government backed away on Thursday from its attempt to mandate censorship software, Green Dam and Youth Escort, on personal computers, a move that was previously delayed...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: CPJ condemns harassment of journalists, censorship in UrumqiDate:13/07/2009 China must allow free reporting and Internet in Urumqi Authorities in northwestern Xinjiang should stop the harassment of journalists reporting on ethnic rioting and restore Internet access in the regional capital, Urumqi, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: CPJ testifies on China's media controlsDate:11/09/2009 Madeline Earp...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Crackdown on lawyers and legal activistsDate:09/09/2009 'In a report released today, Amnesty documents an alarming escalation of the crackdown on lawyers and legal activists who have accepted the risk of human rights cases in China...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Dissident and literary scholar Liu Xiaobo formally arrestedDate:29/06/2009 Amnesty International condemns the formal arrest of prominent scholar and activist Liu Xiaobo on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on 23 June...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Dissident Writer Interrogated for Publishing Critical Articles Date:24/02/2009 Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Zhejiang-based writer Wu Gaoxing (???) was interrogated by public security police for defaming the reputation of state organs...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Europe Asks for Software Delay Date:29/06/2009 The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, called on China to postpone its requirement that computers be sold with Internet filters starting July 1...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Fears for Web FreedomDate:19/11/2008 Writers in China said they feared a long hard road before real freedom of expression emerges in China, as authorities in the eastern province of Jiangsu formally arrested a prominent blogger who called for democratic change...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: High security on Tiananmen SquareDate:03/06/2009 China has boosted security in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, ahead of Thursday's anniversary of the killings in 1989...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Is China imposing more powerful version of Green Dam, called Blue Shield?Date:21/09/2009 'Reporters Without Borders is very worried about reports that Internet Service Providers in the southern province of Guangdong have installed a new filtering software called Landun (Blue Shield or Blue Dam in English) that is more powerful that its problematic predecessor Green Dam...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Leading Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, arrested over freedom charterDate:10/12/2008 A leading dissident who organised a charter signed by hundreds of Chinese thinkers, academics and writers calling for dramatic political and legal reforms was under arrest yesterday...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Leading free speech activist could get five years in prisonDate:30/06/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the subversion charge that was brought yesterday against Liu Xiaobo , a leading intellectual and free speech activitist who has been held without trial in an unknown location since 8 December...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: National Day triggers censorship, cyber attacks in ChinaDate:23/09/2009 The Chinese government should stop censoring Web sites and protect Internet users from cyber attacks in advance of upcoming National Day celebrations, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Physical attacks and harassment of journalists in Xinjiang and GuangdongDate:09/09/2009 At least four journalists have been physically attacked by security guards or police in the past eight days in China...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Sham Trial of Veteran Human Rights ActivistDate:23/11/2009 The conviction of veteran human rights activist Huang Qi on state secrets charges on November 23, 2009, demonstrates the Chinese government's intent to use the judicial apparatus to crush whistleblowers without regard to minimum standards of fairness, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Tiananmen: It's raining censorshipDate:05/06/2009 It's hot in Beijing this time of year...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Tibet Lockdown Exacerbates TensionsDate:26/02/2009 China should open Tibetan areas to independent monitors and journalists as a means of diffusing ethnic tensions and preventing violence on the eve of a string of politically sensitive anniversaries, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Thursday, 26 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Well-known human rights blogger placed under house arrest in BeijingDate:21/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders was relieved to learn in a telephone interview with Mo Zhixu today that his house arrest has been lifted...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Google stops its censorship in China: Amnesty responseDate:13/01/2010 Reacting to media reports today that Google is to stop censoring Internet search results for users of its Google...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Group: Chinese democracy activist gets 10 yearsDate:17/10/2009 The founder of a Chinese group that challenged Communist rule with a call for multiparty democracy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a human rights group said Saturday...
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Saturday, 17 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Group: Founder of Tibetan Web site gets 15 yearsDate:16/11/2009 The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday...
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Monday, 16 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seeing red over green: China to install censorship softwareDate:15/06/2009 China's announcement that personal computers sold from July 1 must carry Internet-filtering software pre-installed by the manufacturer should be a flashing red light to journalists and defenders of free expression online...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tibet: Four Tibetan writers jailed for criticising Chinese governmentDate:05/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of the imprisonment of four Tibetan writers, which was reported yesterday by the Tibetan blogger Woeser and has been confirmed by other local blogs that have all subsequently been blocked (Aryatara, Ganglin, Sangge, Lmgo)...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Beijing must Open Door to Media Freedom, Says report on OlympicsDate:27/11/2008 Chinas Olympic Games performance took the world by storm, but it gets mixed reviews in a report issued today on official treatment of overseas journalists and media covering the Games...
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Thursday, 27 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China closes 90 websites as internet crackdown intensifiesDate:13/01/2009 China extended its internet crackdown today, announcing that it had closed more than 90 websites as part of its campaign to eradicate vulgar and pornographic material...
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China cracks down on Twitter, other social mediaDate:03/06/2009 Chinese authorities shut down blogs, Internet forums, and social media sites such as Twitter in an apparent attempt to stem online political discussion ahead of Thursday's 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989's Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China cracks down on 'vulgar' online searchesDate:06/01/2009 Chinese officials yesterday launched a crackdown on vulgar websites including Google and the country's leading search engine, Baidu...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China defies media cuts and closures with new newspaper launchDate:21/04/2009 These are gloomy times for the media, with cuts and closures around the world...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China dissident's PM book set for release amid jail threat Date:09/08/2010 BEIJING, Thursday 5 August 2010 (AFP) - A controversial book that criticises China's Premier Wen Jiabao will be published later this month even after police warned its dissident author that he could end up in jail, the publisher said Thursday...
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Monday, 9 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China fails to improve human rights in 2008Date:14/01/2009 China failed to enact democratic reforms in 2008 despite promises to do so, a private democracy watchdog organization said Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China jails writer for 15 years for 'endangering state security'Date:25/07/2010 Human rights groups have attacked the heavy sentence a Chinese court has imposed on a Uighur writer who posted critical articles online and spoke to foreign journalists after last year's riots in Xinjiang...
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Sunday, 25 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China must abandon censorshipDate:13/10/2010 Dear members of the standing committee of the National People's Congress: Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China Upholds Dissident Liu's Sentence Date:11/02/2010 A Chinese court upheld an 11-year prison sentence for writer Liu Xiaobo on subversion charges, prompting swift rebukes from the U...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China, Palm Springs Film Festival clash over Tibet doc Date:07/01/2010 Chinese authorities have pulled two films from the Palm Springs International Film Festival ahead of screenings later this week of The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle For Freedom...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese authorities ban newspaperDate:01/10/2008 Chinese Authorities have issued a three-month ban on the China Business Post over allegations that the weekly publication convened media regulations...
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese censors take notice of Twitter-style blogsDate:02/08/2010 Chinese censors blocked access to Facebook and Twitter a year ago for fear the foreign sites could be used to sow political unrest...
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Monday, 2 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese Censorship Equals ProtectionismDate:07/01/2010 Beijing's methods to censor the Internet are becoming ever more repressive...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese Christians arrested for trying to hold open-air serviceDate:12/04/2011 Dozens of Christians who planned to hold an outdoor service in Beijing in protest at being made homeless from their place of worship have been arrested, in the latest Communist party crackdown on dissent and demonstrations...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens Date:06/02/2009 It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek alternative to the stultifying variety show beamed into hundreds of millions of living rooms on the eve of each Lunar New Year holiday...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Editor who led independent journalism in China resigns Date:10/11/2009 Independent journalism in China, never a robust phenomenon, has taken a body blow with the resignation from the country’s top investigative business magazine of its pioneering editor...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tibetan writer detained, whereabouts unclear Date:02/04/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Public Security Bureau in Chinas Gansu province to disclose the whereabouts and legal status of Kunga Tsayang, a monk from the Amdo Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery who has written online political commentary...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Freedom of Expression and the Internet in ChinaDate:15/10/2008 Webpage outlining the restriction on internet and freedom of expression in China...
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ChinaDate:19/11/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations relating to freedoms of expression in China…
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Friday, 19 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Baidu Accused of Aiding Chinese Censorship in U.S. SuitDate:19/05/2011 BEIJING—Eight New York residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday against China and Chinese online-search provider Baidu Inc...
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Thursday, 19 May 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
China: Dark times for lawyers as repression intensifies Date:30/06/2011 "The Chinese government has unleashed an uncompromising series of measures intended to rein in the legal profession and suppress lawyers pursuing human rights cases...
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Thursday, 30 June 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Don't blacklist journalists: media watchdogDate: 30/06/2011"China's top press watchdog has reiterated that no organization or individual has the right to bar journalists from reporting on them and urged government departments to...
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Thursday, 30 June 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 30 June 2011
China: 1.3 million websites shut in 2010Date: 13/07/2011 " More than one million websites closed down in China last year, a state-run think tank has said...
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Thursday, 14 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 14 July 2011
China Steps Up Web MonitoringDate: 26/07/2011 "New regulations that require bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly Web monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut Internet access...
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
China: Says It Was Targeted In 500,000 Cyberattacks Date: 09 August 2011 "BEIJING -- Nearly 500,000 cyberattacks were aimed at computers in China last year and almost half originated overseas...
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
China: Propaganda Bureau takes control of two Beijing newspapersDate: 03 September 2011 "The Beijing propaganda bureau has taken control of two influential newspapers in the Chinese capital, prompting fears that they will be more strictly censored...
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Saturday, 3 September 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
China claims it has successfully curbed 'excessive entertainment' on TVDate: 4 January 2012 "A campaign to curb "excessive entertainment" by cutting the number of racy programmes on Chinese satellite television channels has been successful...
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Online writer imprisoned in ChinaDate: 09 Jnauary 2012 "A 10-year prison term given to online critic Chen Xi last month is the latest severe sentence targeting dissenters in China, the Committee to Protect ...
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Monday, 9 January 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Chinese dissident charged with subversion... for writing a poem Date: 18 January 2012 "The Chinese authorities have indicted a veteran dissident on subversion charges for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Press freedom suffered significant setbacks in 2011, says IFJ reportDate: 23 Janaury 2012 "A new International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report reveals that press freedom in China suffered significant setbacks in 2011...
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Monday, 23 January 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Twitter policy that restricts tweets sparks outrageDate: 01 February 2012 "Twitter announced last week that it would begin restricting tweets in specific countries if they violated local laws, setting off claims of censorship by...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 3 February 2012
China tells broadcasters they will be limited in number of imported TV series they can showDate: 14 February 2012 "BEIJING — China’s television broadcasters will be limited in the number of imported series they can show, the government has announced, as China continues to try to rein in foreign influence...
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Monday, 13 February 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 17 February 2012
Attacks on the Press in 2011Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Report
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 24 February 2012
U.N. Affirms Internet Freedom as a Basic RightDate: 6 June 2012 "Will Internet companies help or hinder government authorities that try to restrict their citizens from using the Web freely? And will their customers...
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Friday, 6 July 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 10 July 2012