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    Wikileaks leader talks of courage and wrestling pigs 28/10/2009 09:56:00

    In early March, two human rights lawyers from Kenya were on their way to give testimony about illegal killings by police when their car was blocked and they were shot dead at close range.
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    Protests make clean-feed Internet a mess for govt 15/12/2008 09:41:00

    Protests erupted across Australian capital cities on Saturday in opposition to the government's $70 million national clean feed Internet scheme, which will impose blanket content filtering for all Web connections.
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    Some Web sites blocked at China Olympic press center 31/07/2008 09:57:47

    Journalists connecting to the Internet at the Beijing International Media Center (BIMC) are discovering that despite promises of an open reporting environment, China is still blocking access to some Web sites.
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    Australians asked to help monitor the Great Firewall of China 25/07/2008 08:22:55

    Amnesty International has developed a tool designed to monitor the extent of internet censorship in China, and is asking Australians to help use it.
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    ACLU files lawsuit to challenge surveillance law 11/07/2008 07:57:47

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several other groups have filed a lawsuit in an effort to strike down a new law allowing the U.S. government to intercept the phone calls and e-mail messages of people with suspected ties to terrorism.
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    Google grilled on human rights 09/05/2008 10:57:04

    Google's shareholders, following the advice of the board, voted down two proposals on Thursday that would have compelled the search giant to change its human rights policies, but the issue dominated the company's annual shareholder meeting nevertheless.
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    Technology's 10 Most Mortifying Moments 19/10/2007 09:50:33

    We've all had excruciatingly embarrassing moments. We say something loud and inappropriate at a party and the room abruptly falls silent and stares. Or we misbutton our shirt and it takes half a day to figure out why everybody's giving us funny looks. That sort of thing.
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    Press watchdog blasts China's blogging policy 27/08/2007 13:03:50

    Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country.
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    Press watchdog blasts China's blogging policy 27/08/2007 07:21:27

    Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country.
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    Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist 06/08/2007 08:48:36

    A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
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    Report says legislation could stop censorship in China 11/08/2006 08:14:29

    A human rights watchdog urged governments in U.S. and Europe to adopt new legislation that would prevent Internet companies from censoring their content or keeping records of users' online behavior in China, the group said in a report released on Thursday.
 
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