Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Jailed bloggers
I have posted two links in the sidebar for some interesting blogging-related stuff, Bloggers' Rights and Committee to Protect Bloggers. Please visit these links!
From Committee to Protect Bloggers (and there are links on that site to many more bloggers who have been jailed for what they've written):
Arash Sigarchi has been sentenced by the Iranian authorities to 14 years in prison. This is an extraordinary sentence for a man guilty only of expressing displeasure at the arrest of other bloggers.
Mojtaba Saminejad was arrested, freed on bail, saw his bail doubled, and is still in prison in Tehran. He was also arrested for complaining on his blog about the previous arrests.
From Committee to Protect Bloggers (and there are links on that site to many more bloggers who have been jailed for what they've written):
Arash Sigarchi has been sentenced by the Iranian authorities to 14 years in prison. This is an extraordinary sentence for a man guilty only of expressing displeasure at the arrest of other bloggers.
Mojtaba Saminejad was arrested, freed on bail, saw his bail doubled, and is still in prison in Tehran. He was also arrested for complaining on his blog about the previous arrests.