to put pressure on Chinese authorities to release jailed AIDS activist and rights campaigner Hu Jia on medical grounds.In a campaign on the social networking site Facebook titled "A Day Longer is a Day too Long," Hu's supporters called on people to mark World AIDS Vaccine Day by making phone calls to the authorities to support Hu's bid for medical parole.
"This grassroots campaign is calling for a day of action to remind the Chinese government that the world has not forgotten about Hu Jia," campaigners said in a statement on Facebook.
from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Online Campaign for AIDS Activist
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Uyghurs based in Urumqi said that popular Uyghur Web sites including Uighurbiz, Diyarim.com, Salkin, Shabnem, and Orkhum remain closed, with many of their editors and moderators still behind bars.
And in Urumqi, an official complaints hot line confirmed that censorship of online content would continue as before.
An employee who answered the phone at the Xinjiang Negative News Reporting Line said "negative" information is that which harms ethnic unity and national security.
from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Xinjiang Online, Controls Remain
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