Repressive Countries Gaining Foothold Ahead of WSIS, RSF Warns

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed concern that several countries that harshly crack down on use of the Internet are members of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), which met in Geneva from 23 to 25 November 2004, in the run-up to the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis. The organisation also noted that from 22 to 23 November, another repressive country, Syria, hosted a WSIS preparatory meeting organised to set up a "partnership to build an information society for the Arab world."