May 12, 2003

Bloggers unite!


May 12 — On April 20, the eve of his 30th birthday, Iranian journalist Sina Motallebi made history: He became the first blogger to be arrested. In Iran, where newspapers are routinely shut down for mysterious reasons and where journalists are imprisoned without explanation, blogs, or weblogs, have emerged as a last bastion of personal freedom — and the latest perceived menace for the Iranian government to grapple with...
Information from MSNBC Newsweek

Newsweek writes about Sina matlabi and all the Iranian bloggers.