Committee to Protect Bloggers

Indus Asia Online Journal reports that the government of Pakistan has blocked Blogspot, cutting off access to thousands of blogs in the country. It was last reported blocked in Pakistan in September.
Don’t Block the Blog confirms this.

Update: Associated Press (via New TeeVee) reports that Pakistan has removed the block that resulted in a worldwide block of the service. The offending video has been removed, of course. It’s an education to realize that one group of people in one country can deprive the entire world of a communications vehicle.
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Update: In a “near […]

During the night Ange Embuldeniya reported:
(T)here’s been a joint-united protest by bloggers, students and human rights activists outside one of the homes of judges from the supreme court in pakistan who refused to take oath under the new pco this morning. About more than 5,000 students and bloggers from LUMS - Lahore University of Management […]

Update: From a photo-rich post on the student-run Emergency Times:

Police, on Tuesday, baton-charged journalists protesting against the closure of Geo News, outside the Karachi Press Club. Several journalists were wounded in the police charge. Subsequently, the arrested journalists were released at night, following relevant orders from Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad. The media representatives were scheduled […]

Dr. Awab Alvi of Teeth Maestro is reporting on the ground from Karachi via Blackberry.
Ange Embuldeniya is handling the actual posting out of fear that the press crackdown following Musharraf’s “state of emergency” will soon result in a crackdown on bloggers. New York Times’ blog The Lede detailed the method in a recent post.
I […]

From Don’t Block the Blog:

It has being widely reported throughout Pakistan that access to the entire blogspot.com domain has yet again been blocked in Pakistan. For about four months (since May, 2007) Google fortunately had changed the IP address of its Blogspot servers. The new IP addresses were not demarcated as prohibited by the censorship […]

Pakistan’s online free-speech group
Don’t Block the Blog has a post today entitled, “Draconian Cyber Crime in Pakistan.”
In it the writer recounts a seminar on this law, called the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2007, which is making its way through the Pakistani legislature. The seminar was led by attorney Zahid Jamil, who outlined the legal […]