<a href="http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/censor.html" target=_blank><img src="http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/images-sm/censor-sm.jpg" alt="" align="RIGHT" border="0"></a>Amnesty International has issued a report detailing the detainment of 33 people in China in connection with use of the Internet.
Many on the list are political activists and dissidents, including four members of the China Democracy Party (CDP) and 14 members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is outlawed in China.
The report also charges IT companies Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Nortel Networks and Websense as having "provided important technology which helps the Chinese authorities censor the Internet."
The longest sentence detailed in the Amnesty report is a 12-year gaol term handed down to Yao Yue, a Beijing graduate student who was tried in December last year for downloading and disseminating material from Falun Gong web sites. In three cases those detained have died, said Amnesty, adding that two deaths were reportedly "as a result of torture." The third was attributed to leukaemia.
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