Committee to Protect Bloggers

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 […]

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 […]

Funny sometimes when, individuals rather than the usual suspects, governments try to intimidated bloggers.
According to an email on the UK’s National Union of Journalists’ mailing list, Tom Feely who runs the anti-war and altrenative news site; http://informationclearinghouse.info, was threatened by men who told his wife, ‘….Tom must stop what he is doing on the web…’ and […]

Burma has become an object lesson for the power of blogging and, sadly, for the vulnerability of bloggers to the actions of a determined government. Protests began in August and, due to the lack of both independent domestic press and the presence of many international journalists, bloggers did the heavy-lifting in getting the news out.
Burma-based […]

Oiwan Lam wrote, about a small epidemic of censorship and self-censorship among Chinese reporters who are also bloggers. She linked to a post by reporter-blogger Zan Aizong, writing on the site v360. The pressure from authorities has led reporters to delete posts and sometimes their entire blogs, according to Zan, via Lam.
Here’s the list […]