INTERNET ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UNDERWAY 11:43, 09/09/2001
The attack on the Belarusian Internet sites continues. We can say with full certainty now that not a single site covering the Belarusian elections on-line, cannot be reached from Belarus. To the sites blocked earlier (Charter 97, Radio Freedom, Nasha Svaboda newspaper, Belarussian Business Newspaper, Belarussian Newspaper), some more sites added: the site of the civil initiative “Independent Observance”, that distributes information on the mass violations of the electoral code, BelaPAN agency site, Radio Ratsya site, a site of the single democratic candidate Vladimir Goncharik.
Overnight September 8-9 the Security Council ordered the administration of the State Center of Information Security, responsible for domain policy in *.by zone, to remove from DNS information on all sites, that intended to monitor presidential elections in Belarus. As a result, sites of Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta www.bdg.by, Belorrusky Rynok www.br.minsk.by, and all those whose addresses started with *.home.by, *.minsk.by, *.org.by and others are no longer available on-line.
Next day they installed a filter for the incoming traffic (there’s state monopoly on exterior channel in Belarus), which obstructed access for all Belarusian users to the sites, covering the elections in Belarus. This is a logical continuation of the astoundingly insolent falsification, unleashed by the authorities, which seem to have realized the impossibility of winning in a fair ballot.
The list of the sites that cannot be accessed from Belarus:
www.charter97.org
www.svaboda.com
www.svaboda.org
www.bdg.by
www.vybory.bdg.by
www.belapan.com
www.election.belapan.com
www.dt.home.by
www.racyja.pl
www.irex.minsk.by
www.spring96.org
www.zubr-belarus.com
www.vybor.org
all domain areas *.home.by, *.ubibel.by, *.nsys.by, *.minsk.by, *.org.by
The site of the united democratic candidate Vladimir Goncharik (www.goncharik.org) is not seen from Belarus as well.
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