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November 3rd, 2005

Chinese blog shut down just days after being nominated for free expression contest

Julien Pain · 07:50 · East Asia

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the censorship of pro-democracy writer Wang Yi’s blog, which was closed down just days after it was nominated for the “freedom of expression” category in a blog contest being organised by the German public radio station Deutsche Welle. The company that hosts the Tianya website closed ... 1 comment · read »

September 19th, 2005

Guide for bloggers and cyberdissidents

Julien Pain · 10:47 · Blogger News

Reporters Without Borders will release a "Guide for bloggers and cyberdissidents" on the 22nd of September. It will be available on the RWB's website in five languages (English, French, Persian, Chinese and Arabic) and includes an article on "anonymous blogging" by Ethan Zuckerman which was developed on the Global Voices ... 7 comments · read »

September 6th, 2005

Warning: Yahoo! won't protect you.

Julien Pain · 13:01 · East Asia

According to Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders), Information supplied by Yahoo! helped Chinese journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao – sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” – shows that ... 20 comments · read »

September 1st, 2005

Freedom of Speech News

Julien Pain · 14:23 · East Asia

The latest developments on threats to Freedom of Speech over the past week. With Reporters sans frontières China: Two cyber-dissidents put under surveillance during UN human rights visit The Chinese authorities put Liu Di, a young Internet user who was imprisoned for a year in 2002-2003, and Liu Xiaobo, a leading figure ... 1 comment · read »