Cuba Seeks Internet Control with the Help of Belarus
HAVANA TIMES, Jan 27 — High level authorities from Cuba and Belarus met in Havana this month to increase cooperation in information technology, transmission and communications to apply tighter controls on the Internet.
The meeting was attended by the executive director of the Belarus Broadcasting Company and that country’s minister of Communication and Informatics, who met with Alfredo Nieves, Cuban’s ambassador to the former Soviet republic.
According to the website Café Fuerte, the high-level meeting took place two weeks after the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko approved a new law restricting internet access to citizens in his country.
According to Keir Giles, director of CSRC, an Oxford-based non-profit research institute that provides analysis on Russia and the region, the talk of censorship within the Belarus law is “complete fiction”, ie, it mainly regulates the online market business in the country, so let us not jump into rushed conclusions:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15648186,00.html
With this cooperation I doubt Cuba’s internet users will see much about the campaign against a state murder foretold in Belarus. Join the campaign of Lyubou Kavalyova to save her son, Uladzislau Kavalyou and his friend Dzmitry Kanavalau from the death penalty in Belarus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6yxfmjmsA
http://chn.ge/belaruspetition (English version)
http://actuable.es/peticiones/salva-mi-hijo-la-pena-muerte (Spanish version)