Committee to Protect Bloggers

Filtering on the web continues unabated, from the Australian government’s introduction of filters on web content, to Burma’s regime’s dictatorial fiats on what can and what cannot go up on blogs and websites.
Follow discussions I had with Curt a while back, we have decided to dedicate a post each week on filtering.  We will strive […]

Iranian blogger and journalist, Omir Reza MiSyafi, has been sentenced to more than 2 years in jail.  Omid was accused of insulting Iranian religious leaders and spreading proganda against the Iranian state.
We will strive to bring you more information as the English version of the reporting site, AUT News, seems not up-to-date.

Nay Phone Latt
CPB is gutted to learn that Nay Phone Latt, has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison by the Burmese authorities. He was convicted of contravening a public law act by posting a cartoon of the head of the Burmese military junta on his blog. His colleague, Thin […]

Update 2:
Blacklooks tells us that Elendu is now free, and is receiving treatment.  Here at CPB we are in solidarity with Elendu and all Nigerian bloggers.
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Blacklooks reports that the Nigerian Blogger who’d been arrested has now been transferred, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency. Now that he is in EFCC […]

Kazakhan’s authorities have apparently directed the country’s top ISPs to block the blogging platform Livejournal, This is the most popular blogging platform in the region and hosts a majority of blogs.
The main reason being that a former Kazakhstan ambassador to Austria who was sacked due to his criticism of the President, Nursultan Nazarbayev blogs […]

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 […]

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