This is Kate's beat, but she's traveling so I'll pipe up. Amnesty International is detailing the cases of at least 33 people who are in Chinese prisons for "offences related to their use of the Internet." Two have died, apparently from torture and ill-treatment.
And if this makes you thankful you're an American, check out this paragraph from the full report:
Foreign companies, including Websense and Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Microsoft have reportedly provided important technology which helps the Chinese authorities censor the Internet. Nortel Networks along with some other international firms are reported to be providing China with the technology which will help it shift from filtering content at the international gateway level to filtering content of individual computers, in homes, Internet cafes, universities and businesses.Proud of our American ingenuity now?
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