BEIJING, June 28 Kyodo Police hav...

BEIJING, June 28 Kyodo

Police have ordered Internet cafes in every part China to install software that can stiffen blacklisted sites and track the changes in cyberspace of Web surfer who put to proof to access them, a Hong Kong-based human rights form into groups said Friday.

Taking advantage of an ongoing crackdown forward Internet cafes following a Beijing Internet cafe blaze June 16 that killed 24 the proprietors of all such cafes are now obliged to install the special software in their computer according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

The software, which according to the authorities' order should be installed within couple weeks, reportedly blocks access to more than 500000 overseas-based Internet sites, the center said.

These are reportedly ranked into different warning categories, ranging from overseas recently made knowns sites to the most ''reactionary'' sites -- those of the banned Falun Gong meditation movement

equal though access to these sites is obstructed computers installed with the special software will immediately alert local police information security center of any attempts at users to access them.

While ''Internet police'' are then able to track the mental actions of the user, if the user set downs a free e-mail system like as Yahoo they can find abroad the user's email address and password.

In addition, computer in Internet cafes issue daily, automatic reports to the police information security center onward the number of family trying to access banned sites.

Since Internet cafes are required to register the names and identification details of all their users, it is possible to track the cyberspace mental actions of people on the police blacklist steady if they don't access banned sites, according to the center

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