IFEX, 19 Dec 2008
oreign media websites including the BBC Chinese portal, Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America, which were unblocked during the lead-up to the Olympic Games in August, have been blocked once more.
A legal website, http://www.fatianxia.com , has also been ordered to close after posting several articles including the Charter 08, a joint statement signed by several hundred Chinese journalists, writers, lawyers and activists calling on the National People's Congress Standing Committee to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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