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Repression
continues in China, six months before
Olympic Games
Action
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When
the International Olympic Committee
assigned the 2008 summer Olympic Games
to Beijing on 13 July 2001, the Chinese
police were intensifying a crackdown on
subversive elements, including Internet
users and journalists. Six years later,
nothing has changed. But despite the
absence of any significant progress in
free speech and human rights in China,
the IOC’s members continue to turn a
deaf ear to repeated appeals from
international organisations that condemn
the scale of the repression.
From
the outset, Reporters Without Borders
has been opposed to holding the Olympic
Games to Beijing. Now, a year before the
opening ceremony, it is clear the
Chinese government still sees the media
and Internet as strategic sectors that
cannot be left to the “hostile
forces” denounced by President Hu
Jintao. The departments of propaganda
and public security and the
cyber-police, all conservative bastions,
implement censorship with scrupulous
care.
Around
30 journalists and 50 Internet users are
currently detained in China. Some of
them since the 1980s. The government
blocks access to thousands for news
websites. It jams the Chinese, Tibetan
and Uyghur-language programmes of 10
international radio stations. After
focusing on websites and chat forums,
the authorities are now concentrating on
blogs and video-sharing sites. China’s
blog services incorporate all the
filters that block keywords considered
“subversive” by the censors. The law
severely punishes “divulging state
secrets,” “subversion” and
“defamation” - charges that are
regularly used to silence the most
outspoken critics. Although the rules
for foreign journalists have been
relaxed, it is still impossible for the
international media to employ Chinese
journalists or to move about freely in
Tibet and Xinjiang.
Action
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Action
2 Tibet's Stolen Childhood
Determined
to control religion in Tibet, China
kidnapped the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun
Choekyi Nyima, in 1995 when he was just
six years old. Despite repeated
international appeals, China has
consistently refused to divulge his
whereabouts. On April 25, 2007 he turns
18 years old.
Put
aside religious differences and take
action - HE WAS JUST CHILD!!!!
Action
3 Beijing 2008: Race for Tibet
Join
ICT in calling on China to show the
world that it's a worthy host of the
2008 Olympics by:
- Ending
human rights abuses in Tibet; and
- Directly
engaging the Dalai Lama to find a
negotiated solution for Tibet.
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