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Paris hosts cyber-shelter for battered bloggers - Jun 28, 2010 - 12:52:34 AM

(AFP)  PARIS ¡ª Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.

The project won support from an editor of the Chinese news blog boxun.com, who said two of the site's contributors have been jailed in China for publishing material online criticising the authorities there.

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2010 SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO Reporters Without Borders inaugurates its "Garden of Freedoms" - Apr 26, 2010 - 7:58:05 AM
It is hard to imagine a "Better city – Better life" in a country that censors the Internet and jails human rights activists on such a wide scale as China. The Expo 2010 Shanghai slogan is meaningless when a government imposes so many curbs on its citizens' freedom of expression. "City under surveillance – Lives under surveillance" would be a better slogan for this World Expo in China.

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World Day Against Cyber Censorship: March 12 - Mar 10, 2010 - 2:01:27 AM

Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber Censorship is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all. The fight for online freedom of expression is more essential than ever. By creating new spaces for exchanging ideas and information, the Internet is a force for freedom. However, more and more governments have realised this and are reacting by trying to control the Internet.

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Is Western press a pawn or truly free? - Feb 10, 2010 - 5:37:47 AM

Freedom of the press has played an essential role in Western history. In the war against feudalism, the emerging bourgeois used press freedom as a weapon to fight censorship; in their global expansion, Western powers made use of it as an effective tool to project power.

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Statement of Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of H.H. the Dalai Lama, concerning the dialogue process with China - Dec 11, 2009 - 2:32:41 AM

My attention has been drawn to an interview published in the Chinese media by Executive Vice Minister Zhu Weiqun of the Central United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party on December 8, 2009 concerning our dialogue process.