Blogspot (Pakistan)
http://www.blogspot.com
In a recent development, the PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication
Authority) has blocked access to thousands of blogs and websites being
hosted on Google Inc's blogging hosting service - www.blogspot.com.
PTA issued a notice announcing the ban of 12 offending websites which
were promoting the blasphemous cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
and one of the offending websites was being hosted on the domain
www.blogspot.com which also hosts more than four million other blogs
and websites.

In a very blatant misuse of the power entrusted with the PIE (Pakistan
Internet Exchange), the network administrator there has placed a block
on the entire domain blogspot.com, hence blocking accessibility to all
Internet users in Pakistan. It has been more than a week and no
measures have been taken to correct this error yet, probably
indicating some more deliberate attempts to censor the World Wide Web
than an honest mistake.

Internet access is the key to the success of any business, and if the
governing body of the Internet in Pakistan, the PIE, continue to
create hurdles, this will ultimately discourage foreign investment. A
prime example of such mismanagement can also be found in the not too
distant past, where Pakistan was isolated from the World Wide Web last
year for about 7-10 days and this resulted in catastrophic losses
within the industry which amounted to a few billion dollars. At the
time, the root causes of these loses were attributed to the
inadequacies of the PTA .

The Don't Block the Blog campaign
(http://help-pakistan.com/main/dont-block-the-blog/) and the Action
Group Against Blogspot Ban in Pakistan
(http://groups.google.com/group/AGABBIP) are protesting this
outrageous ban on blogs and Internet censorship in Pakistan on the
whole. We urge the print and electronic media to exert pressure upon
the Government of Pakistan to first lift the ban on non-controversial
blogspot.com websites and then push for the reform of the PTA before
this incompetent authority wreaks havoc with a progressing Pakistan.
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Anti-Chang (South Korea)
antichang.jinbo.net
- stopping the website
(we are not yet received official document from police or election management committee, but police called us several times)
- violation of election law
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Gush Shalom (Israel)
www.gush-shalom.org
Gush Shalom is an Israeli peace movement.
The current atmosphere in Israel is extremely in
favour of military actions and against
a lawful solution.
We are not under immediate threat,
but pressure on us is increasing, and our site
may be closed down with a very short notice.
We want to be prepared for such an eventuality.

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Middle East Transparent (France)
www.metransparent.com
Website blocked by Saudi authorities since October 6, 2004. Saudi readers can no longer accede to website.
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"PC Bangs", schools and public libraries all over South Korea (South Korea)
No one location
June 27, 2001 -- APC has received a request from JinboNet,our partner network in Korea, for support and solidarity for a 72 hour "website strike" from June 29th to July 1st. This action is being widely supported by progressive organisations in Korea and is being taken in protest against the Korean government's introduction, from July 1st, of a compulsory filtering system for "PC Bangs" (Cybercafes), schools and public libraries.The system will block access to websites that the Korean government considers to be "harmful to minors". Websites are being selected for blocking by means of robot keyword searches. The initial list consists of 120,000 websites. Included in the list are many mainstream lesbian and gay websites.

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Korean electricity workers general strike Website under threat of closure by Police (South Korea)
http://baljeon.nodong.net
When striking power workers ended their 38 day strike on April 3, they returned to work to find that office and home access to their union website (as well as several other labour websites and social groups websites) had been blocked by their companies. Korea Southern Power Co. Ltd., Korea Western Power Co., Ltd., Korea Midland Co.,Ltd., Korea East-West Power Co. and Ltd. Korea South-East Power Co.and Ltd. have blocked IP addresses of progressive groups websites since that time, namely the Korean Progressive Network (Jinbonet), the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the Electricity Workers Union, and the Korean Federation of Transportation Public & Social Service Workers' Union in an attempt to censor "incendiary" information from workers. At the time of writing (June 20) the block was still in place.
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Nodo50 (Spain)
http://www.nodo50.org
On Thursday 17th of January, 2002, the Website of Spanish activist group, Nodo50, suffered a denial of service attack aimed at their Web Server. This anonymous action meant that the WebSites of over 400 progressive and social justice organisations hosted by Nodo50 were inaccessible to the thousands of people who visit the sites daily for 18 hours.

The Assembly of Nodo50 considers that the attack was provoked by the recent coverage of the work of the "Network of Counter Information EU 2002" by the Spanish mass media. This etwork unites different projects (including Nodo50, IndyMedia Barcelona and others) that criticise globalisation and have come together to join forces during 2002, the year that Spain has the residency of the European Union.

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Anti-POSCO Parody Website (South Korea)
http://antiposco.nodong.net
In early 1997, POSCO, a South Korean multinational, bought part of the Sammi Specialty Steel Co., and ignoring a collective agreement to rehire Sammi workers, forced two thousand out a total workforce of 2,342 out onto the street.

For the last three years, 200 former Sammi workers have carried on fighting for their reinstatement, winning court orders which have consequently been ignored by POSCO. They set up the AntiPOSCO Website, a parody site modeled on the POSCO site, to express their rightful claims and publicize their plight. The Website was then attacked by POSCO, as a supposed infringement of copyright.
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Association against Torture (ACT)
http://www.nodo50.org/actortura
The Association against Torture (ACT), an organization reporting acts of brutality and torture in the Spanish State since 1989 has had its Website threatened with possible closure following an investigation by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.

Inspectors from the Agency for Data Protection arrived at the Nodo50 (hosts of the ACT Website) offices on March 8 demanding information from the ACT Website. The investigation, which is still underway, was started following an official complaint to the agency that the ACT Website publishes the names of police officers, prison warders and other state law enforcement officials accused of torture and brutality. Next to the name of each officer an indicator shows whether the officer was found guilty or was absolved of the charges made against him or her.

The Spanish newspaper, ABC, reported today that "(Fernandez) explained that no-one, except for the appropriate public bodies (…) can store information regarding criminal or administrative offences ( ..) even court reports identify those implicated by their initials".

The Association against Torture has been publishing reports collecting information of cases of brutality and torture for over eleven years. Ten years ago, Spain signed European and United Nations conventions prohibiting the use of torture and other degrading treatment and punishments. However, ACT claims that torture is still seen as "sometimes necessary" in Spain.
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