From the Guardian:

China has lifted blocks on long-barred websites for journalists after coming under fire over censorship.

The move, which followed overnight talks with the International Olympic Committee, means that sites including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the BBC Chinese language service are visible in the media centre for the Games - and even other areas of Beijing.

The row over their blocking had been deeply embarrassing for the IOC, which had said that journalists would have the same internet access they had enjoyed at previous Olympics.

But sites with information on the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong, Chinese dissidents, the Tibetan government in exile and the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests are still inaccessible, apparently on the grounds that they are subversive or against the national interest.

Here's my earlier posting.

The Guardian also quoted an Amnesty International spokesperson as saying, "It seems public outrage has succeeded where the IOC's 'quiet diplomacy' had failed."