Committee to Protect Bloggers

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, […]

“I’ll sell your ass to the cops for a nickel.” - Skypey McManwhore
Reuters reports that Skype has been recording conversations as part of its deal with the Chinese government. (ONI broke the news.)
(T)the eBay-owned firm had to apologize on Thursday after a report revealed that its Chinese service not only monitors text chats with sensitive […]

Prominent Tibetan blogger Woeser has been detained by the Chinese police, according to the Times (via Status of Chinese People).
Woeser, a prominent poet who lives in Beijing, had returned to Llasa, the Tibetan capital, and was visiting her mother when police presented her with a warrant. The warrant stipulated she had been photographing allegedly sensitive […]

We just got word that Brian and friends are on a plane to Los Angeles, arriving Monday morning. He was released with 7 other US citizen detainees: Jeff Goldin, Tom Grant, Mike Liss, James Powderly, Jeff Rae, John Watterberg and Jeremy Wells.
They have been released 6 days early, largely (we believe) because of political pressure […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 
Chinese citizen journalist, Zhou ‘Zuola’ Shuguang was today placed under a kind of ‘town arrest’ by Chinese authorities.  Apparently he was able to tweet the incident, oh the joys of twitter, and his followers quickly got the word out.
The authorities seemed to be uncomfortable with his intention to travel to Beijing and blog about the olympic […]

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 […]