Amnesty International celebrates its 45th birthday this week, with a new campaign and a new website: irrepressible.info.
Here’s a bit from the press release:
Around the world, Internet cafés are shut down, computers seized, chat rooms monitored, and
blogs deleted. Websites are blocked or heavily censored, search engines are restricted and
foreign news prohibited.irrepressible.info highlights internet censorship and the cases of people imprisoned just for what
they have written in emails or on websites. It also highlights the role of companies who have helped
countries like China censor the web.We’re asking people to go to www.irrepressible.info and sign our Pledge for internet
freedom; send our e-postcard to the Chinese authorities calling for the release of Shi Tao – doing
10 years hard labour for sending an email – and show their support by putting our badge on their
website or email.The internet has become a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. A lot of has changed in 45
years – but some governments are still repressing their citizens, and Amnesty is still standing up
against them.