The Laughing Wolf points our attention to the plight of two Iranian bloggers and the Committee to Protect Bloggers asking that bloggers across the globe to commemorate today as Free Mojtaba and Arash Day.
Here is the latest from the site:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian journalist was jailed for 14 years on charges ranging from espionage to insulting the country's leaders in an unusually heavy sentence in Iran, where tens of journalists have been tried in recent years.
Rights activists said on Tuesday that Arash Sigarchi, 28, was convicted by the Revolutionary Court in the Caspian province of Gilan in northern Iran.
Sigarchi, a newspaper editor in Gilan who also wrote an Internet journal or "weblog," was arrested last month after responding to a summons from the Intelligence Ministry.
"In total, he has been given 14 years in prison," Mohammad Saifzadeh, a member of Center for Defense of Human Rights in Tehran told Reuters by telephone.
The BBC (really) highlights the effort:
The global web log community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.
The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on Tuesday to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".
Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both in prison in Iran.
"I hope this day will focus people," Curt Hopkins, director of the Committee, told the BBC News website.
Thanks for the link, and for helping to push this!
Posted by: Laughing Wolf | February 22, 2005 at 03:40 PM