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Great Firewall of China

By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | August 1, 2008

Web Sites Blocked at Olympic Press Centers in Beijing (partial list):

  • Amnesty International, amnesty.org
  • China Digital Times, Berkeley-based news aggregator, chinadigitaltimes.net
  • Chinese Human Rights Defenders, crd-net.org
  • Committee to Protect Journalists, cpj.org
  • Congressional-Executive Commission on China, cecc.gov
  • Dui Hua Foundation, works for release of Chinese political prisoners, duihua.org
  • East Turkistan Information Center, supports Muslim separatists in Xinjiang, Uygur.org
  • Freedom House, issues ratings of countries' freedom, freedomhouse.org
  • International Campaign for Tibet, savetibet.org
  • Human Rights in China, hrichina.org
  • Human Rights Watch, hrw.org
  • Reporters Without Borders, rsf.org

Partially Blocked:

  • BBC, news.bbc.co.uk, Chinese-language pages on some computers blocked, English pages open
  • State Department, www.state.gov, human rights report on China blocked, other pages open
  • Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org, page on Tiananmen Square Massacre blocked, other pages open

Not Blocked:

  • Central Intelligence Agency, cia.gov
  • Council on Foreign Relations, cfr.org
  • Taiwan Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington, taiwanembassy.org
  • White House, whitehouse.gov

Source: Sun Staff Research at Beijing International Media Center and Main Press Center, July 31