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 games.  Zuola knew he would be visited by the authorities today and had tweeted about to let everybody know.

Aware of the rucus he was causing he decided against going to Beijing, and was at home when the ….’government people’ came for him.  He was detained for a bout an hour and released, and informed that he would not be allowed to leave his hometown for the time being, and told that if he left he would be brought back.

Global Voices writes that this is the second time Zuola has be threatened for his blogging.

The first is our Committee to Protect Bloggers Facebook Causes page. If you are on Facebook, please join the cause. 946 members have preceded you.

The second is our our Committee to Protect Bloggers Twitter page. If you’re on Twitter, please follow our status updates and we’ll do the same to yours. Twitter is a “microblogging” service, with a 140 character limit, which is also good for disseminating links.

Finally, there is our our Committee to Protect Bloggers del.icio.us account. You can subscribe to the feed, or to a sub-feed based on a specific tag. If you’re also on del.icio.us, you can join our network.

Kareem Amer, the Egyptian blogger, was arrested on November 6 of last year. Kareem was a young university student, a native Egyptian from a Muslim family, who thought, and spoke, critically about both Islam and Egypt. That got him a four year jail sentence. For more information on Kareem, check out FreeKareem.org, especially the Kareem FAQ and the section called What Kareem Said.

This upcoming November 6 the Committee to Protect Bloggers, in conjunction with FreeKareem.org, is sponsoring “Twitter4Kareem.” Using the microblogging service Twitter, we are asking everyone who decries the unjust arrest and subsequent four year jail sentence, of this young blogger,who was critical of his religion and the leadership of his country, to join with us and use their Twitter accounts to “tweet” about Kareem, free speech and threats to bloggers in Egypt and worldwide. If you are taking part in one of the many rallies for Kareem’s release, update that throughout the day. If you’re reading about him, posting about him, just thinking about him, use Twitter to tell the world.

Our goal is cause a “Twitterlanche,” a fast-growing, Twitter-borne Kareem meme to wash across what is the fastest growing application the web has yet seen. It won’t just be Twitterers who see it. Journalists, diplomats, educators and the public at large will feel the waters rise if we do it right.

Although FreeKareem.org has been successful at keeping Kareem in the public eye, which is very hard to do once you’ve been locked away from it, let’s raise his profile at this shameful one-year anniversary. Drop a note in the comments section. We’ll keep you apprised of goings on as we get closer to the date of November 6, here on the CPB blog as well as on our Twitter account, of course.

And, as we go forward with this, anyone who wants to write about it, please use the tag: TWITTER4KAREEM.