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China blocks BBC website

October 16, 2014

Chinese censors have blocked the BBC’s website as tensions rise in Hong Kong between pro-democracy protesters and police.

In a statement, the BBC said that the move seemed to be “deliberate censorship”. It did not say what may have prompted the move by Beijing, which also blocks the websites of the New York Times, newswire Bloomberg and the BBC’s Chinese-language website.

“The BBC strongly condemns any attempts to restrict free access to news and information and we are protesting to the Chinese authorities. This appears to be deliberate censorship,” said Peter Horrocks, director of the BBC World Service Group.

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