China - Xinjiang suffers information blockade four years after demonstrations

Reporters without borders

Chinese authorities clamped a week-long communications blackout on the Uighur autonomous region as part of a military repression prompted by disturbances in 2009. On the eve of those events, Reporters Without Borders has concluded that authorities are maintaining their tight control of information in the most heavily monitored area of China. “No improvement has been seen since the disturbances of 2009,” the press freedom organization reported. “Xinjiang remains targeted by a program of (...)

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