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                   China Blocks BBC English-Language Website

   by VOA News

   The British Broadcasting Corporation says its English-language website
   is no longer accessible in China, a move slammed by the broadcaster as
   an act of "deliberate censorship."

   In a statement Wednesday, BBC World Service Group Director Peter
   Horrocks strongly condemned what he called the attempt to "restrict
   free access to news and information."

   Horrocks said the BBC is protesting the move to Chinese authorities,
   which routinely block news reporting from foreign organizations,
   including the Voice of America.

   China's so-called Great Firewall has for years blocked the British
   broadcaster's Chinese-language website, though until Wednesday its
   English-language site was largely available.

   The BBC did not say if it believes the expanded censorship is a result
   of any specific aspect of its reporting, though the move comes amid
   weeks of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

   China's state-controlled media have portrayed the protests in the
   semi-autonomous Chinese territory as illegal and destabilizing, in what
   appears to be an attempt to keep them from spreading to the mainland.
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