From AFP, via IOL (link):
Global press leaders on Tuesday told China to stop Internet censorship and free all detained cyber-dissidents, and they slammed Western companies that helped it develop software that prevents Chinese citizens from accessing information on human rights and democracy.
They called on China “to end its pervasive censorship of the Internet, release all journalists and cyber-dissidents currently detained and remove all restrictions that discourage an open and free media environment in the country”.
Members of the International Press Institute (IPI), a global body of editors, leading journalists and media executives, unanimously adopted the firm line at their annual general assembly in the Scottish capital Edinburgh.
See also IPI Resolution on China passed by the 55th General Assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006
