4 May 2006

Alert

Blogspot.com accessible again


Incident details

Internet/website(s)

banned

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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the action of five ISPs including Paknet, a subsidiary of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company, on 2 May 2006, in ending the blocking of http://www.blogspot.com ( or http://www.blogger.com ). This blog service had been filtered as a result of a ban by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in February on blogs that had posted the controversial Mohammed cartoons ( see: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16678 ).

In a more recent move, the PTA banned four Baluch nationalist websites on 25 April ( see http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17508 ). Reporters Without Borders condemned all of these bans, which were imposed with obtaining a court order.



Source:

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
 

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