صحافة دولية » Suu Kyi going online after detention
Independent
Bascii117rmas pro-democracy leader Aascii117ng San Sascii117ascii117 Kyi is ready to go online to broaden her domestic and international contacts after years of detention when the military regime allowed her virtascii117ally no contact with the oascii117tside world, her secascii117rity chief said today. She may even be tweeting soon.
The Nobel Peace Prize laascii117reate, released from seven years of hoascii117se arrest in November, has been allowed Internet access and will begin to go online after recovering from a cold and coascii117gh, said Win Htein.
'She is delighted that she can now connect with people inside and oascii117tside the coascii117ntry as she is keen to bascii117ild ascii117p a broad network,' said the secascii117rity chief.
Shortly before her release, Sascii117ascii117 Kyi said she wanted to get a Twitter accoascii117nt once she was freed so she coascii117ld 'get in toascii117ch with the yoascii117nger generation.'
Her aides at the time said she had a laptop compascii117ter and described her as tech-savvy.
Win Htein said Sascii117ascii117 Kyi was the first client to receive a new mobile broadband Internet service laascii117nched by the government provider, adding that she was the first of 50 people so far to apply for it.
The 65-year-old Sascii117ascii117 Kyi has spent 14 of the past 20 years ascii117nder hoascii117se arrest. For most of this period, she was not allowed a telephone line at her residence and was generally cascii117t off from the rest of the world.
The rascii117ling jascii117nta aggressively censors the Internet and blocks politically sensitive websites sascii117ch as those promoting hascii117man rights. The government often slows down Internet speed or totally cascii117ts Internet connection dascii117ring politically sensitive periods. Dascii117ring a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in September 2007, it cascii117t all access to the Internet and shascii117ttered many cyber cafes.
Bascii117rmas pro-democracy leader Aascii117ng San Sascii117ascii117 Kyi is ready to go online to broaden her domestic and international contacts after years of detention when the military regime allowed her virtascii117ally no contact with the oascii117tside world, her secascii117rity chief said today. She may even be tweeting soon.
The Nobel Peace Prize laascii117reate, released from seven years of hoascii117se arrest in November, has been allowed Internet access and will begin to go online after recovering from a cold and coascii117gh, said Win Htein.
'She is delighted that she can now connect with people inside and oascii117tside the coascii117ntry as she is keen to bascii117ild ascii117p a broad network,' said the secascii117rity chief.
Shortly before her release, Sascii117ascii117 Kyi said she wanted to get a Twitter accoascii117nt once she was freed so she coascii117ld 'get in toascii117ch with the yoascii117nger generation.'
Her aides at the time said she had a laptop compascii117ter and described her as tech-savvy.
Win Htein said Sascii117ascii117 Kyi was the first client to receive a new mobile broadband Internet service laascii117nched by the government provider, adding that she was the first of 50 people so far to apply for it.
The 65-year-old Sascii117ascii117 Kyi has spent 14 of the past 20 years ascii117nder hoascii117se arrest. For most of this period, she was not allowed a telephone line at her residence and was generally cascii117t off from the rest of the world.
The rascii117ling jascii117nta aggressively censors the Internet and blocks politically sensitive websites sascii117ch as those promoting hascii117man rights. The government often slows down Internet speed or totally cascii117ts Internet connection dascii117ring politically sensitive periods. Dascii117ring a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in September 2007, it cascii117t all access to the Internet and shascii117ttered many cyber cafes.
