Youtube: Chinese Regime Censors Online Support for Jailed Dissident Liu Xiaobo.

[Peter Terpstra]

Support within China for jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo has been gaining pace
online. And in response, the Chinese communist regime has moved to stamp out
the voices of dissent.

On the popular Chinese search engine and forum Baidu.com, a search for Liu
Xiaobos name comes up with this:

Sorry, in accordance with the relevant legal regulations and policies, this
forum has been temporarily closed.

But its not just Lius name thats been censored. The term 11 Years—the length
of Lius prison sentence—also appears to be barred.

Also censored is the phrase Sui Bo Zhu Liu—a pun on a Chinese proverb that
translates to drifting with the tide. The phrase—with two of its characters
sounding the same as Lius name—is being used by netizens to commemorate him.

Users on social networking website Twitter are paying respect to Liu with a
symbolic yellow ribbon. And a support group for Liu has attracted nearly
1,000 members on Facebook. These websites are banned in China, but users are
able to access them with special proxy software.

Liu, who turned 54 on Monday, co-authored the widely spread petition Charter
08 calling for democratic reform in China. He was sentenced to 11 years in
prison on Christmas Day, after being charged with so-called inciting
subversion of state power. The Chinese communist regime has been heavily
criticized for the harsh sentence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbHLytb2vkQ

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Amnesty International Report 2009 on China:
http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/asia-pacific/china