Burma - Many news websites unblocked, but 17 journalists and three netizens still held

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders has confirmed that access to a number of previously banned foreign news websites including Youtube, BBC, Reuters, The Bangkok Post, Straits Times, Radio Free Asia, Irrawaddy, Democratic Voice of Burma, and the Burmese version of Voice of America has been unblocked. Internet connections nonetheless continue to be very slow. “The unblocking of websites just a few months after Internet café regulations were tightened is curious,” Reporters Without Borders said. “If (...)

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