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A spokesman for Amnesty International said: "It's good news that our site has been unblocked in Olympic venues and perhaps elsewhere in Beijing, but it is still a long way from the 'complete media freedom' promised. It seems public outrage has succeeded where the IOC's 'quiet diplomacy' had failed."

Chinese engineers quoted in an article in the Atlantic Monthly said they had been told to prepare to unblock access for a list of specific internet protocol addresses to used by foreign visitors.

But Andrew Lih, a new media author in Beijing, said it seemed the authorities might have simply decided it was easier to lift blocks for everyone. "It's possible [to block individual locations] but would be very complicated," he said.