Der iranische Journalist und Blogger Sina Motallebi ist im Iran in Haft. Motallebi führte das Weblog: http://www.rooznegar.com. (Sein Blog, das nicht mehr läuft, gehörte zu den 5 beliebtesten persischen Weblogs)

Nun scheint man sich in der Blogo-Sphere für ihn zu solidarisieren: Mark Glaser schreibt bei OJR:

Another journalist is detained by the Iranian government in Tehran. Seems like the same old story of a crackdown on independent media by a hard-line administration. But this time, the detainee, Sina Motallebi, is different. His roots are in print journalism, as a film critic, later covering politics for a reformist paper Ham Mihan, and the arts for Hayat-é-No (subsequently shut down). Most recently he gained fame with his popular Farsi-language Weblog, Webgard (meaning "Web surfer"). And now the Persian blogging community, surprisingly strong, has linked up with top American bloggers to promote an online petition to ask for Motallebi's release.

Hier weiterlesen: Weblogs Unite to Protest Detained Iranian Blogger.

Und auch Editor:Myself(English)

Und den FREE-Button:


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Und hier kann man die Petition für die Freilassung von Sina Motallebi unterzeichnen: http://www.petitiononline.com/sina/