From the US, The Chinese-language website of ChinaAid Association, which monitors and reports on religious persecution and other human rights abuses in China, and a bilingual companion website have both collapsed under cyber attacks.
ChinaAid's Chinese-language website at www.chinaaid.net and its www.monitorchina.org website, which provide Chinese and English material about religious persecution and the rule of law, were both inaccessible as a result of the attacks.
ChinaAid said heavy malicious traffic had repeatedly caused the website's server, located in the United States, to crash.
ChinaAid said it's impossible to say definitively who was behind the attacks.