Committee to Protect Bloggers

 
Hossein Derakhshan  (courtesy of Global Voices Advocacy)
Iran has continued with its anti-free speech stance by arresting, Hossein Derakhshan, a prominent blogger in the country.  Hossein who writes one of the most popular blogs in Iran was arrested after he came back to the country a few weeks ago after living in Canada and was being […]

Guo Quan
Guo Quan was arrested yesterday, 13th November by the Chinese authorities, for inciting subversion.  This stems from some of his blog posts where he exhorts the Chinese government to embrace democracy.  He is currently being held at an Nanjing prison.
Gou had previously been arrested on 18th May when he was held for 10 days, […]

Nay Phone Latt
CPB is gutted to learn that Nay Phone Latt, has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison by the Burmese authorities. He was convicted of contravening a public law act by posting a cartoon of the head of the Burmese military junta on his blog. His colleague, Thin […]

Word is out that Raja Petra Kamarrudin has been released.  Apparently the Malaysian judiciary did not share the government’s opinion that he was a threat to national security.
According to Aljazeera, the High Court in the state of Selangor, ruled that Raja Petra was detained illegally by the Malaysian authorities, with The Security Minister acting beyond […]

Update 2:
Blacklooks tells us that Elendu is now free, and is receiving treatment.  Here at CPB we are in solidarity with Elendu and all Nigerian bloggers.
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Blacklooks reports that the Nigerian Blogger who’d been arrested has now been transferred, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency. Now that he is in EFCC […]

Nigerian Blogger, Jonathan Elendu was arrested by the Nigerian SSS and questioned for ’sponsoring a guerilla news agency’  The SSS is the Nigerian State Security Service, and is notorious for clamping down on dissenters.  Elendu was arrested after his arrival from the US where he is based.  His writings are said to have generated ‘national […]

Kazakhan’s authorities have apparently directed the country’s top ISPs to block the blogging platform Livejournal, This is the most popular blogging platform in the region and hosts a majority of blogs.
The main reason being that a former Kazakhstan ambassador to Austria who was sacked due to his criticism of the President, Nursultan Nazarbayev blogs […]

Seems that governments are all the same everywhere, they must get a high off controlling what you can do say or see on the web.  The Australian government is finally introducing a system of filtering content on the net we had reported earlier, where there are blacklists for illegal stuff and inappropriate content for children.
Bad […]

Burma, it seems is taking cues from the Malaysian government in cracking down on internet freedom. The dictatorship there has taken it upon themselves to decide, what sis supposed to go online and what is not. This has led to sites and blogs being shut down and online dissidents being silenced. Raids […]

GMA News, reports that Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been sentenced to two years imprisonment under a tough security law that could keep him in jail indefinately.
Online commentator Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, known for his anti-government views, was already in police custody and was served a detention order Monday night, said his lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar.
The […]