Category: <span>Asia and Pacific</span>

Iran, China, schadenfreude and the London riots

State media in China and Iran have both offered their two cents in response to the riots that have swept the UK over the past three days. A...

Beijing’s bid to spy on public Wi-Fi users

by Index on Censorship | 04 Aug 11

Beijing district police last month enforced regulations requiring café owners and other businesses to install web monitoring software. The software...

Deadly high speed train crash marks watershed moment for Chinese media

by Marta Cooper | 04 Aug 11

The aftermath of the collision of two high-speed trains near the Chinese city of Wenzhou on 23 July has demonstrated that the limits of free...

Telex: a new tool to crush censorship?

by Index on Censorship | 03 Aug 11

In recent weeks there’s been a big buzz about a new anti-web censorship system called Telex developed mainly by a team of scientists from the...

Coverage of deadly train crash censored in China

by Index on Censorship | 26 Jul 11

Two bullet trains collided on 23 July in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, killing at least 38 people and injuring 192. In a country where people don't...

Who is Tashi Rabten?

by Emily Butselaar | 05 Jul 11

A few days ago the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) reported that China had sentenced Tibetan writer Tashi Rabten to four years in prison for...

Ahead of Party anniversary, China poisons the internet

by Index on Censorship | 01 Jul 11

Today, 1 July, is the Communist Party's 90th birthday. In celebration, Chinese web censors have been working feverishly to tighten their control of...

Hu Jia released but not free

by Index on Censorship | 27 Jun 11

After serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for inciting subversion, Chinese activist Hu Jia was sent home on Sunday. But like Ai Weiwei, who...

Ai Weiwei’s jailed colleagues are freed

by Index on Censorship | 26 Jun 11

When dissident artist Ai Weiwei was freed last Wednesday, his four associates were also nabbed back in April, were disturbingly absent. Now it seems...

Ai Weiwei returns home

by Index on Censorship | 23 Jun 11

After 81 days in detention, the detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has finally been allowed to go home. His mother Gao Ying didn't sleep last night,...