An international touring art exhibition portraying the story of an ancient Chinese meditation practice is set to arrive in Newcastle this month.
Falun Gong practitioners suffered severe Human Rights abuses in China during the communist regime and the practice has also been the subject of strict Government-led internet censorship during recent years.
Google’s recent threat to pull out of China has once again provoked debate on an ever-present issue in the online world: the battle between freedom of speech and censorship.
Although countries across the world exercise internet censorship in some form, the main attention is undoubtedly geared towards China.
And rightly so, say human rights organisations.
Amnesty stated on its website: “China operates an extensive censorship policy which includes filtering specific key words and politically sensitive subjects, which result in the blocking of specific internet results, as well as the complete blocking of a large number of websites, including human rights websites such as Amnesty International’s, considered politically sensitive by the authorities.”
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