Committee to Protect Bloggers

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 […]

Here at CPB we are astounded by Malaysia’s anti-criticism streak, with the government facing tough times they have decide that bloggers and website publishers are fair game.
We were a little optimistic that the Malaysia Cabinet decision to rescind the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to block Malaysia Today and all other blocked sites was […]

Andrew Bluestone, the blogger at New York Attorney Malpractice Blog, has been sued by Brooklyn attorney, Marina Tylo seeking $10,000,000 for “libel, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, tortius interference with prospective contractual relations.”
This is due to a statement made on Bluestone’s blog referring to a malpractice case against Marina Tylo.
The Citizen Media Law […]

Update: A Thai member wrote to say Blogger.com (blogspot) has been blocked also. But Bankokbuddy wrote that it had been unblocked. Can anyone tell us what the situation is currently?
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The Thai Ministry for Information, Communication and Technology has ordered more than 1200 sites shut down due to “violation of the computer crime act and specifically […]

Magomed Yevloyev, the publisher and owner of opposition Ingushetya website, www.ingushetiya.ru  has been killed.  He died from a bullet injury to the head while in olice custody. He had been arrested upon arrival at Nagan (Mazras) Airport.  The Ingushetiya authorities say an ‘incident’ took place in the car taking him to hospital leading to his death.
Magomed was a […]

The online portal Malaysia Today has been blocked by the
Malaysia largest ISP TMNET on orders from the Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) as such overseas visitors and non TMNET subscribers can access the site but those using TMNET can not.
A MCMC official is quoted thus:
“It is being blocked because we found that some of […]

Criticism seems to be something lots of people can not stand, the Vallejo City Manager has barred city employees from access two blogs that report on the city fall into bankruptcy.
SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle says
City Manager Joseph Tanner on Monday added the Vallejo Times Herald’s local news blog and the Vallejo Is Burning Web site […]

Update:
Jill Tan, Asia Representative from Apple Inc. informs us that iTunes in China is now working. 
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As athletes downloaded the album “Songs for Tibet” from the iTunes store, in support of the Tibet cause,(the music is also good BTW), China retaliated by blocking the iTunes store in China, anybody who wanted to access the store got a […]

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 […]

Google has been ordered to unmask the identity of an anonymous blogger in India in a defamation suit by a Gremach Infrastructure Equipment and Projects Ltd. 
In their suit Gremach states that the blogger has been on a ‘hate campaign’ and wants Google to unmask the blogger going by the name, ‘Toxic Writer’.  Google in turn […]