Posts Tagged ‘censorships’

YouTube Blocked by China

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 15:38 By Madhuri Katti

You Tube video-sharing site has been blocked in China because of the videos posted on the sites. Apparently a footage showing Chinese soldiers beating up monks and Tibetans was posted by a Tibetan exile group. In the present information age such blockage can hardly suppress news. Though it is yet to be confirmed officially but [...]

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ISHR: Freedom of the Press and Censorship

Friday, March 13, 2009 11:49 By Madhuri Katti

International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) distributed dense black highlighter pens to journalists attending a press conference on ‘Freedom of the Press at the 2008 Olympic Games’. There can be no better way of creating awareness about freedom of press and governmental censorship.
The symbolic black highlighting pen which would leave a censor bar instead of [...]

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