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Submitted: May 30, 2006 - 7:51am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 2:25am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 2:25am
AMNESTY SEEKS TO END INTERNET REPRESSION
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Paul Majendie]
Amnesty International marked its 45th anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp out state censorship of the Internet. The human rights pressure group called on Web users to sign a pledge calling on governments to stop censoring sites and urging technology corporations not to collude with them. Arguing that online censorship is a new threat to freedom, Amnesty claimed to have uncovered Internet repression in areas around the world from China and Tunisia to Vietnam, Iran, Israel and the Maldives.
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