Amnesty International and the Observer have jointly launched a major global campaign on Internet censorship called Irrepressible.info to commemorate Amnesty's 45th anniversary. The objective of the campaign is to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress. You can sign their plege and post fragments of irrepressible information on your website. The OpenNet Initiative is one of the project's partners. We produced a Global flash map of Internet filtering, and the fragments of banned information for the mirroring campaign.

You can read more about the campaign in the Observer, BBC, and CBC.

We've been fortunate to have a lot of advance press coverage of our Psiphon tool, which of course can be a double-edged sword. Journalists don't always have an opportunity to get into the nitty gritty details and we've been fielding a lot of questions from interested observers. coders, well-wishers, and ... well... not-so-well-wishers.

We have therefore put together a Psiphon FAQ that can be accessed here. Hopefully this will help answer some of those questions and concerns.

The Toronto Star has a lengthy front page article on the Citizen Lab, including profiles of me, Nart, and Michael ...   more »

The OpenNet Initiative today released "The Internet and Elections: the 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus." The report presents the findings of ONI's effort to monitor the Internet during Belarus' recent presidential elections.

Amidst fears that the authoritarian regime of President Aleksander Lukashenka was going to close down Belarus political cyberspace during the elections, ONI testing found little evidence of systematic and comprehensive filtering, despite earlier ONI investigations that established the regime's capability to do so. ONI monitoring during the elections showed that, on average, opposition and independent media websites remained accessible throughout the monitoring period. ONI testing revealed a number of serious irregularities that disrupted access to certain opposition and independent media websites at strategic moments during and after the vote.

To read the report, click HERE