Committee to Protect Bloggers

Arthur Bright, a student, wrote an interesting essay on the WIA Report, asserting that the distinction between being arrested for blogging and being a blogger who got arrested was not perfectly observed.
Is it helpful to include arrests like those of Fatah, McClellan, and Aljughaifi in the WIA survey?  I’d argue no.  While it is commendable […]

Given the press coverage of the WIA Report, which included reference to a list of Burmese arrestees we posted a link to, I thought some clarification would be useful. Neither the source of the report, Burmese blogger Niknayman, nor the CPB, nor Duncan, the guy who formatted the list we used, have ever maintained that […]

Chart by Apurba Sen based on WIA stats
The World Information Access Project at the University of Washington just released a report on arrested bloggers, using some data from the CPB. They identified 64 bloggers who were unaffiliated with other media who had been arrested for the contents of the blogs between 2003 and 2008. They […]

AFP reports that blogger Karim el-Beheiri, one of the Egyptian food protest bloggers, has been released from prison. He and other protesters, including several bloggers, were arrested on April 6, in the Nile Delta city of Manhalla, after engaging in a protest against increased bread prices, a protest largely arranged via Facebook. The detention, as […]

Gopalan arrested in Singapore
Singabloodypore sent us a note informing us that another blogger, a former Singaporean and current US citizen, has been arrested. Unlike the last arrest, of (ick) Fragrant Prince, this one is not for some species of racism, but stems, I think, from the same tendency, to shut up ideas not given official […]

Esra’a of FreeKareem shared a letter with us from Kareem.
I got 2300 messages from everywhere , i feel so happy everytime i am receiving a letter , i feel that people
didnt forget about me
Our Flood the Jail with Mail campaign was much more of a success than I anticipated, I confess.
Check out this post to […]

A 24-year old blogger of Chinese extraction was arrested in Singapore for an allegedly racist post. The blogger goes by the name “Fragrant Prince.” (Ick.) A visit to the blog URL results in a message, “This blog is open to invited readers only.” Other bloggers said “Fragrant Prince,” whose name is Franco, replaced the allegedly […]

Tarek Baiassi, whom we’ve written about before, has finally been sentenced, by a Syrian “court” to three years in prison. According to the RSF, the legal-like glass for Tarek’s sentence included “publishing false news” and “weakening national sentiment,” whatever that is. The real reason for the sentence was his having posted an article on the […]

Saudi blogger Fouad Al Farhan has been released from prison and is resting at home with his family, according to a message from the Free Fouad group.
Fouad, called the father of Saudi blogging, was arrested on December 11 in Jeddah and held in solitary confinement with no charges and only one family visit.
Confirmed by Saudi […]

According to the Bangkok Post, Vietnamese authorities have arrested blogger Nguyen Van Hai.
The newspaper Vietnam Law reported that Ho Chi Minh City police Tuesday arrested Nguyen Van Hai, who blogs under the name Dieu Cay, on charges of tax evasion. The paper said police had searched Hai’s house Monday and found evidence that he […]