BEIJING, June 26 (UPI) -- The Chinese government and several other authoritarian regimes have been trying to block news of protests in Iran from their own citizens, bloggers report.
However, news has been getting through, The Washington Post said Friday. In China, some bloggers have been using green backgrounds to show support for those protesting the results of the election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office in Tehran.
"The Iranian people face the same problems as us: news censorship and no freedom to have their own voices," Zhou Shuguang, 28, a blogger from Hunan, told the Post.
The Chinese government, like Iranian leaders, has been depicting the protesters as U.S. stooges.
News of Iran has also leaked into Cuba. Yoani Sanchez, 33, a blogger in Havana, said Iranians' use of Twitter and Facebook has been inspiring.
The governments of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and Venezuela also fear the Iranian protests could be the beginning of a wave of political unrest sparked by the global economic slump, the report said.
