Reporters sans frontières - INTERNET http://www.rsf.org/ fr-fr 2008 Beijing Games - As Olympic Games continue, so does mistreatment of prisoners of conscience - 20.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28239 Reporters without borders has received disturbing information about the health of cyber-dissidents <strong class="spip">Huang Qi</strong> and <strong class="spip">Hu Jia</strong> and journalist <strong class="spip">Sun Lin</strong>, and calls on the international community, including the leaders who will attend the Olympic Games closing ceremony, to intercede on their behalf. Vietnam - No news of Ho Chi Minh City blogger held for past four months on spurious charge - 19.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28208 Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the release of blogger Dieu Cay, who has been held on a tax fraud charge since 19 April.“This is an utterly baseless charge that is just a pretext to prevent him from posting more articles critical of the government,” Reporters Without Borders said. Syria - Lawyer held for 12 days is latest victim of government harassment of opposition websites - 18.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28190 Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the government's behaviour towards certain opposition websites after lawyer and website editor Abdallah Souleiman Ali was detained for 12 days for “persisting in publishing legal and political articles criticising the role of the government.” It was the second time he has been targeted since March. Malaysia - Court orders online newspaper editor to identify visitors to website - 14.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28182 Georgia - Russian and Georgian websites fall victim to a war being fought online as well as in the field - 13.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28167 Reporters Without Borders condemns the many violations of online freedom of information since the outbreak of fighting in the Georgian province of South Ossetia on 8 August.“The Internet has become a battleground in which information is the first victim,” Reporters Without Borders said. <a href="article.php3?id_article=28176" class="spip_in">читать на русском</a> Russia - Court upholds order blocking website based in Ingushetia - 13.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28117 Sudan - Letter to National Telecommunication Corporation about YouTube's inaccessibility - 7.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28091 Beijing Games 2008 - Cyber-censorship continues for Chinese-language websites - 6.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28082 Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing online censorship just two days before the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony.“ Nothing or almost nothing has changed for Chinese Internet users as very few Mandarin sites have been unblocked", the organisation said. Azerbaijan - Minister replies to letter about Internet regulation - 5.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27976 Communications and Information technology minister Ali Abbasov told the Azerbaijan Press Agency (APA) on 19 July that he wanted to set up an agency to supervise the Internet in Azerbaijan and prevent cyber-crimes.“This plan poses a potential threat to online free speech as its duties are very vague,” the two organisations said. Syria - Call for release of writer accused of “weakening national feeling” - 5.08.2008 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28072 Reporters Without Borders called on the Syrian government today to release jailed online journalist Habib Saleh, who was arrested in a market in the northwestern town of Tartous on 6 May. He appeared in court in Damascus on 4 August accused of writing articles that “weakened national feeling” and “incited civil and religious warfare,” under articles 285 and 289 of the criminal law.