BBC News | February 25, 2011
Business networking site LinkedIn says access to its services appears to have been restored in China, a day after it was blocked there.
“We will continue to monitor the situation,” a US spokesman for the site said.
Shortly before the site went offline on Friday, one user set up a forum, discussing the idea of a “Jasmine Revolution” in China.
The phrase has been used to describe the popular revolts in the Middle East.
The Agence France-Presse news agency says that one of its journalists in Beijing was able to access the LinkedIn site on Saturday.
Last weekend, a number of pro-democracy demonstrations were held across China, with police making a handful of arrests.
The protests are thought to have been organised in response to calls made on the website Boxun.com, access to which is banned inside mainland China.
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