Reporters Without Borders today issued a report entitled “Enemies of the Internet” in which it examines Internet censorship and other threats to online free expression in 22 countries. “The 12 ‘Enemies of the Internet’ - Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam - have all transformed their [...]
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Defiant Vietnamese Cyber-Dissident Freed - 自由亞洲電臺
Defiant Vietnamese Cyber-Dissident Freed
自由亞洲電臺, Washington DC
BANGKOK—Vietnamese writer and cyber-dissident Huynh Nguyen Dao was released Wednesday after serving a 2-1/2-year prison term for anti-government crimes, defiantly insisting that Vietnamese citizens have a right and a duty to speak out. …
The intensifying battle over Internet freedom - Christian Science Monitor
The intensifying battle over Internet freedom
Christian Science Monitor, MA
China’s crackdown on writers before the Olympics and the arrest in December of leading dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, one of the authors of Charter 08, which advocates democratic reform in China, contradicts the government’s claim that it is easing up on …
Vietnam - Government frees cyber-dissident while keeping online activities under strict control - 20.02.2009
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that journalist Huynh Nguyen Dao was freed on 15 February on completing a 30-month jail sentence for circulating Internet material criticising the government. The organisation regrets that respect for the right to online free expression continues to be rare in Vietnam.