02 May 2004

State Control of the Internet in China - 2004 update
International Secretariat, Amnesty International, London, UK
Self-description: "This document updates Amnesty International's first major reports on the Internet in China, People's Republic of China: State Control of the Internet in China, ASA 17/007/2002 and People's Republic of China: State Control of the Internet in China: Appeal Cases, ASA 17/046/2002, both published in November 2002."
Supplied note: "This is the current (2004) Amnesty report on the Internet in China. (Single page document, AI INDEX: ASA 17/001/2004, 28 January 2004) - ma."
Site contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Increased detentions of Internet activists - the cost to the individual; (3) Detention of Internet users in connection with SARS; (4) Increased controls and surveillance of Internet users; (5) Corporate responsibility and Internet freedoms; (6) Appeal cases; (7) APPENDIX 1: Amnesty International recorded a total of 54 people believed to be in detention for Internet-related offences as of 7 January 2004; (8) APPENDIX 2: List of those who have been detained for Internet-related offences and died in custody; (9) Related documents.
URL http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170012004?open&of=ENG-2S2
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30