Committee to Protect Bloggers

Mohammed Refaat, one of the Facebook activists arrested a month ago with has been rearrested, according to Agence France Presse.
Refaat, who runs the blog “Matabbat” (Speedbumps), was first detained on July 21 after police raided his home and confiscated his computer, the groups said.
“He was accused of offending state institutions, destabilising public security and inciting […]

Around 5 am US Eastern Standard Time Brian’s family received calls from the US Embassy in Beijing. An Embassy representative had visited Brian and the 5 other detainees, and we were assured that they were doing ok. Brian had written messages to different family members and he seemed in good spirits. He seems to be […]

Videoblogger Brian Conley, detained with 5 others in Beijing
Statement from Eowyn Rieke
My husband, Brian Conley, has dedicated his life to helping oppressed people communicate their struggles to the world. Since 2004 he has worked on the video blog Alive in Baghdad which produces and distributes weekly video segments about daily life in Iraq and the […]

CPB friend Antony Loewenstein sent us his new book, The Blogging Revolution. I’ll write it up here as soon as I’m done reading it. It covers blogging in repressive regimes. It has chapters on Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China.
Knowing Antony, I imagine it will prove both literate and unique.

Update: Nathan, from SFT, left a comment and link. Brian and the crew have been sentenced to 10 days in detention.
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Update: Four other arrestees are also bloggers, Jeffrey Rae, Michael Liss, Jeff Goldin and Tom Grant.
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CPB friend, Brian Conley, was arrested at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday in Beijing. Brian, the founder of the Alive in Baghdad […]

McAlester, Oklahoma (U.S.) District Attorney Jim Bob Miller (hand to G-d) decided he didn’t like what had been written about him on the McAlester Watercooler. The Watercooler’s anonymous users frequently critically discuss local politicians. You might expect Jim suck it up on the personal pride front and honor the First Amendment. Instead, he “filed a […]

We received a note this morning from Emin Huseynzade, Caucusus Project Manager for TransitionOnline.
Azerbaijani web page Day.az [editor’s note: won’t load for me] which is reliable source of nformation in Russian from Azerbaijan were attached from Russia. According to Baimov, editor-in-chief of Day.az all cyber attacks administred from one point. He said, that hackers did […]

CPB friend Antony Loewenstein has a new book coming out in September. It’s called “The Blogging Revolution” and will be of interest to anyone blogging in repressive countries or interested in those who do. Here’s the low down from publishers, Melbourne University Press.
The Blogging Revolution is a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the […]

From Time
Zeng Jinyan, a blogger, dissident and the wife of imprisoned blogger and AIDS activist Hu Jia, has been disappeared by the Chinese government, along with the couple’s child, according to Agence France Presse (via Inquirer.net). Zeng went missing on August 7, the day before the Olympics were set to begin.
Zeng, who was nominated for […]

Sedition is a favorite “law” to levy against bloggers by both Malaysia and its neighbor, Singapore. In Malaysia on Wednesday, blogger “Penarik Beca,” or Abu Bakar Mohd Rashid, joined American-Malaysian Raja Petra Kamarudin, in being charged with sedition. Bakaq was arrested Wednesday and his computer and cellular phone seized.
Hard-T has more details.
“Abu Bakar in his […]