China blocks BBC site amid HK protests
17 Oct 2014 4:22 AM IST
The BBC’s website was blocked in China on Wednesday, a day after a video of Hong Kong police beating and kicking a pro-democracy protester began circulating online. Time appears to move the BE the British Broadcaster’s website HAS been the first completely Blocked in China since December 2 010, when it was Nobel Peace Prize Award Inaccessible for days ahead of the ceremony for Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo .
The BBC’s Chinese-language website has been blocked in China, aside from a few months around the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. ‘Extra censorship in mainland China on Wednesday,’ the BBC’s Asia bureau chief wrote in a Twitter.
The BBC’s Chinese-language website has been blocked in China, aside from a few months around the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. ‘Extra censorship in mainland China on Wednesday,’ the BBC’s Asia bureau chief wrote in a Twitter.
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