Free Arash & Mojtaba
02.22.2005
Arash Sigarchi & Mojtaba Saminejad are in prison, in Iran. The two were jailed for doing what many of us do w/o much thought: they posted their opinions on a weblog. The small, burgeoining Iranian bloggosphere has fast become a target of crackdown measures from Iran’s mullahcracy. You can find out more about their cause from the Committee to Protect Bloggers (which started the cyber-awareness campaign). Here’s some background from the BBC.
Pass it on.
Posted by Miguel at 06:45 PM