Committee to Protect Bloggers

Savva Terentyev, a blogger arrested last August for suggesting his local police should be set on fire in the town square, has been sentenced to one year probation.

In its never-ending pursuit of complete elimination of dissent, Iran is introducing a law to murder bloggers. Cyrus Farivar, preparing an story of The World radio program, sent us a note with a link to this story on iAfrica.
Iran’s parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for […]

Malachi O’Doherty, a freelance journalist from Belfast, reports on his blog that Alan Murray “is facing charges of harassment for writing about public figures on his blog.”
He campaigns against the privatisation of public housing. One of the only mixed working class areas in Belfast - The Holy Land - was turned into a student ghetto […]

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 […]

From Potro Salvaje, a Cuban blog
Cuban bloggers frequently type up their posts at home, copy them onto a Sandisk, then duck into a resort hotel to use their Internet connection to post it.
San in Spanish means “saint” and “cruz” means cross.
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Thanks to Jose at Cubanology.

Human Rights Watch (via Sokari on our CPB Facebook Causes page) gives an account of another beating by Egyptian police. (I wish I had more time, or help, to do more original reporting on these issues, but, well, I don’t, so with apologies to HRW, I’m posting an edited version of their report.)
Ahmed Maher Ibrahim, […]

Yoanni Sánchez’s Generación Y blog has been blocked within Cuba, according to USA Today’s On Deadline blog (via Reuters).
This is the most prominent of the first generation of Cuba’s blogs. It reportedly got 1.2 million visitors, especially after media in the U.S., France and elsewhere started writing about it.

Click here to listen to The World’s Tech Podcast featuring the Committee to Protect Bloggers.
Clark Boyd, technology reporter for Public Radio International’s radio program The World, interviewed us today for their Tech Podcast. We’ll be checking in regularly with Clark on the podcast to talk about threats to bloggers and threatened bloggers around the world.
This […]