Syrian authorities have blocked access to 160 dissident Websites since 2000 as part of a drive to censure the press and control Internet usage.

According to the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression coppers have closed 160 sites run by Kurdish political parties, opposition groups, newspapers, human rights, Islamic and civil society organizations.

Apparently, things are getting worse as the number of such site shut downs is increasing. The latest to be shut down is Akhbar Suria, which published photos showing where Hezbollah's military chief, Imad Mughnieh, was assassinated by a car bomb in Damascus in February.