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Chinese Internet Activists Challenge Censorship

A Reuters newswire article by Chris Buckley, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

A coalition of Chinese Web activists has launched a petition decrying censorship of the Internet and challenging the legality of government information controls on China's more than 100 million net users.

Hundreds of citizens signed the petition along with representatives of 13 local Chinese Web sites recently closed or targeted by censors. It began circulating on Saturday via email and overseas Chinese-language Web sites unaffected by domestic censorship.

The signatories said China's constitution grants citizens freedom of expression and publication, and those rights "should be respected and protected, and should not be subject to any unlawful restrictions and obstructions."

posted by Fergie @ 5/01/2006 07:09:00 AM