Great Firewall of China
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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
