13 Nations Denounced for Web Censorship
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times
November 8, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Internet enemies list numbers 13: Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
These are the countries singled out by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders as the worst culprits for systematic online censorship, and they were targeted in the group's 24-hour online protest ending at 5 a.m. Wednesday.
''No one should ever be prevented from posting news online or writing a blog,'' said the Paris-based group, Reporters Sans Frontieres in French, which taps more than 100 journalists who are ''keeping us informed.''
Worldwide, 61 people, 52 in China, are in prison for posting what the countries claimed was ''subversive'' content, the reporters' group said in its annual report.
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