The Committee to Protect Bloggers is urging support from all bloggers on Feb. 22 -- today -- to bring international attention to the plight of two bloggers, Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad, jailed in Iran. Here's a BBC story.
I first discovered the Iranian blog culture when its Johnny Appleseed, Hossein Derakhshan, reported on the arrest of blogger Sina Motallebi. We blogged about that and brought international attention to the story and Sina credits that with helping to get him out of jail and out of the country.
These people are in jail for doing exactly what we have the privilege of doing: Speaking. We must stand with them.
So please link to the Committee to Protect Bloggers and please bring attention to what his happening to our colleagues in Iran.
If you're reading this, please read and link to the effort to free Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad.
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