Dui Hua to Give Remarks on China and the Internet before Congressional Human Rights Caucus on November 7
Dui Hua’s Manager of Research and Programs Joshua Rosenzweig will be among the invited speakers to give remarks at a briefing entitled “China and the Internet: A Virtual Road to Prison” before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) in Washington, DC on Wednesday, November 7.
The below information is from a notice released by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus:
Please join the Congressional Human Rights Caucus for a briefing on the subject of human rights and the Internet in China. The briefing is open to the public and media, and will be held on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2255 of The Rayburn House Office Building.
China has long developed one of the most sophisticated content-filtering Internet regimes in the world. The Chinese government employs sophisticated methods to limit content online, including a combination of legal regulation, "voluntary codes of conduct," internet surveillance, and criminal sentencing to brutally suppress the free flow of information and to promote self-censorship.
Informational websites, including that of the BBC, Radio Free Asia, Voice of America and the public encyclopedia, Wikipedia, have been partially or completely blocked in China. Particularly in light of the upcoming 2008 Olympics, the Chinese government has made it very clear that it intends to crack down on any information critical of the Chinese regime and its actions. For this purpose, President Hu Jintao announced earlier in April of this year a campaign to rid the country's sprawling Internet of "unhealthy content" and to "purify" it.
For some time human rights organizations have raised their concerns about freedom of expression and Internet censorship in China. In 2004, Yahoo came under fire for giving the personal email address of a Chinese journalist, Shi Tao, to the PRC government, which resulted in his conviction and sentence to 10 years in prison. Other Internet companies have closed down journalists' blogs under pressure from the Chinese authorities and have self-censored their search engines and blog tools.
The below information is from a notice released by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus:
Please join the Congressional Human Rights Caucus for a briefing on the subject of human rights and the Internet in China. The briefing is open to the public and media, and will be held on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2255 of The Rayburn House Office Building.
China has long developed one of the most sophisticated content-filtering Internet regimes in the world. The Chinese government employs sophisticated methods to limit content online, including a combination of legal regulation, "voluntary codes of conduct," internet surveillance, and criminal sentencing to brutally suppress the free flow of information and to promote self-censorship.
Informational websites, including that of the BBC, Radio Free Asia, Voice of America and the public encyclopedia, Wikipedia, have been partially or completely blocked in China. Particularly in light of the upcoming 2008 Olympics, the Chinese government has made it very clear that it intends to crack down on any information critical of the Chinese regime and its actions. For this purpose, President Hu Jintao announced earlier in April of this year a campaign to rid the country's sprawling Internet of "unhealthy content" and to "purify" it.
For some time human rights organizations have raised their concerns about freedom of expression and Internet censorship in China. In 2004, Yahoo came under fire for giving the personal email address of a Chinese journalist, Shi Tao, to the PRC government, which resulted in his conviction and sentence to 10 years in prison. Other Internet companies have closed down journalists' blogs under pressure from the Chinese authorities and have self-censored their search engines and blog tools.
posted by The Dui Hua Foundation at Tuesday, November 06, 2007
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