Thirteen Nations Denounced

The non for profit group known as Reporters Without Boarders, established by the French journalist Robert Menard stated that there are 13 nations that are still censoring Internet users in their country where some of are being systematically denied access, and others had been put to jail for expressing their opinion on blogs. There are 61 people arrested around the world, 52 of them in China for posting what is labeled as subversive material. The report stated that portals like Yahoo had been collaborating with foreign governments as it was witnessed by the arrest of Jiang Lijuin who was arrested by police after they obtained information from Yahoo. The portal company stated that sometimes in order to abide by the law they have no choice other than divulging information about users, in spite their strict adherence to users privacy.