Media News - Monday, April 07, 2008
Canadian broadcaster protests China censorship
Canada's national public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada called Friday on Chinese authorities to restore access to its websites, saying that .all eyes are on China. four months before the summer Olympics. CBC/Radio-Canada president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix said in a letter to the Chinese ambassador to Canada, Li Shumin, that China had been blocking access in China to the broadcaster's English-language website www.cbc.ca since the beginning of 2008, and its French website www.radio-canada.ca for at least six months. Lacroix noted that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had promised freedom for the foreign press in covering China, and that recently the BBC's website had been unblocked. (AFP)
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