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Posted on: Friday, 1 January 2010, 15:27 CST

In 2009, Chinese authorities arrested over 5,000 of its citizens for violations of Internet pornography laws — a number that could be much higher in 2010 as the government promises to come down even harder on Web offenders as part of its beefed-up “state security” plan.

The Chinese government is already infamous for its heavy-handed monitoring and restriction of Internet activity — a phenomenon that critical observers have dubbed the “Great Firewall of China.”

According to official figures, China’s ministry of public security arrested nearly 5,400 people and shut down some 9,000 pornography-related websites last year, though it did not disclose how many of those arrests resulted in prosecutions.