China has refused to retract its censorship of the Internet ahead of the Beijing Olympics despite widespread calls for unfettered web access by international media and rights groups.
A spokesman for Beijing's organising committee said under Chinese law, only a "small number" of websites, including one run by the cult Falun Gong, remain blocked. Amnesty International, whose own site is also blocked within China, has accused the International Olympic Committee of caving in. The No time to think? ...
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President Hu voices hope ahead of Tibet talks ... IOC's press chief Kevin Gosper says a recent assurance by IOC chief Jacques Rogge that there would be no censorship had been circumvented when some IOC officials held talks privately with local Chinese games organisers. At the Games media centre in Beijing, correspondents say China is selectively blocking access to Internet pages including entries from Deutsche Welle, the BBC and US broadcaster Radio Free Asia. Also inaccessable are Wikipedia entries describing the Tiananmen Square massace of 1989.
(Deutsche Welle)
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