Three months on, Qatar still blocking Doha News (IPI - International Press Institute)
(World News Austria)

(Source: IPI - International Press Institute) Independent online news portal Doha News has blasted the Qatari government`s ongoing block of the website in the country, saying that the now-three-month-old effort amounted to censorship. The country`s two telecommunications providers, Ooredoo and Vodafone, have blocked access to Doha News since Nov. 30 and the site is only accessibly through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or from outside of Qatar. Government officials insist that the block is due to registration and licensing issues....