BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
17/03/2008
Belarus KGB does not deny Internet filtering
The State Security Committee of Belarus (KGB) has confirmed that works on filtering access to internet pages is taking place in Belarus, online paper Khartiya'97 reports.
The KGB anti-terrorist center deputy head Viacheslav Linenka stated at a press-conference in Minsk that "unnecessary information available on the web should be closed and should be available only for those categories of citizens who can understand them correctly". According to the KGB officer, work on filtering access of the population to the internet web which could contain information on terrorist attacks or provoke for doing them, Khartiya'97 marks.
Answering the question about the use of filters in the internet in Belarus, Linenka stated: "Barriers and filtering are possible. This work is done in Belarus". Besides, he noted that Beltelekom has a police variant with allows to control obtaining of such information", online paper notes. Khartya'97 calls worth mentioning that news of oppositional web sites for some reason is often considered "unnecessary" in Belarus. Access to them is often blocked during important political events in the country.
Source:
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1512
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