[huridocs-tech] Digital Freedom Network Update (18 July 2001)

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DFN HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE
Recent news and articles from the Digital Freedom Network (http://dfn.org)
July 18, 2001
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CONTENTS
1. "Insane" Chinese labor activist released from hospital
2. Taliban ban Internet in Afghanistan
3. Letter of gratitude and concern (China)
4. Media situation deteriorates in Angola
5. South Korea moves to censor Internet


1. "INSANE" CHINESE LABOR ACTIVIST RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL
(July 18) Cao Maobing was jailed after talking to foreign reporters about 
an independent union campaign at the Funing Silk Factory. In December, Cao 
was committed to Yancheng No. 4 Psychiatric Hospital immediately after he 
talked to foreign reporters about the independent union campaign by 300 
workers at the state-owned Funing Silk Factory.
 >> http://dfn.org/focus/china/cao-release.htm


2. TALIBAN BAN INTERNET IN AFGHANISTAN
(July 16) The fundamentalist Muslim group that controls 90 percent of 
Afghanistan have focused their censors on yet another media source.
      The group that controls most of Afghanistan has banned the use of the 
Internet in order to "control all those things that are wrong, obscene, 
immoral and against Islam," according to Taliban Foreign Minister Maulvi 
Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil in a statement noted by the Pakistan-based Afghan 
Islamic Media on July 13.
 >> http://dfn.org/focus/afghanistan/internetban.htm


3. LETTER OF GRATITUDE AND CONCERN (CHINA)
(July 12) "With my present income, it is already impossible to support our 
son to finish his schooling. Additionally, a government official once told 
me: 'After your husband is sentenced, don't expect your son to go to school 
or to have any future.'"
      The wife of jailed Chinese Internet entrepreneur Huang Qi thanks her 
husband's supporters but expresses concern that she can no longer support 
her son.
 >> http://dfn.org/voices/china/zeng-letter.htm
 >> http://dfn.org/focus/china/chinanetreport.htm (China and the Net: DFN 
special report)


4. MEDIA SITUATION DETERIORATES IN ANGOLA
(July 11) The suspension of the independent Radio Ecclesia on July 9 and 
the arrest of reporter Gilberto Neto is one of several recent attacks on 
Angolan journalists. Freelance journalist Rafael Marques reports from Angola.
 >> http://dfn.org/focus/angola/media-deterioration.htm


5. SOUTH KOREA MOVES TO CENSOR INTERNET
(July 10) South Korea has become the latest country to censor its Internet 
content. In legislating an act similar to the 1996 United States 
Communications Decency Act, the South Korean Ministry of Information and 
Communication (MIC) implemented Internet Content Control software on 
computers at all public PC centers, schools, and public libraries on July 1.


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