The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that blogs, social networking sites and other new forms of media has helped to fight against oppression in other countries.

“E-mail alerts, Facebook petitions and blog posts helped raise the visibility of imprisoned journalists in Iran after crackdowns on the media in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election last June.” CPJ said.

Though there are exceptions like China, where their security is so tight that anything they try to post will get them hunted down.

“Censorship technology is growing and becoming so sophisticated in China, that makes it even harder for local people who are interested in getting a word out about these imprisonments or about other infringements, to contact us, to contact their counterparts overseas, to contact the media,” Madeline Earp, of CPJ’s Asia program, told the news conference held in Tokyo when releasing their annual statement.

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