-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: Iran jails blogger Arash Sigarchi for 14 years (BBC) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:11:59 -0500 From: Doug Ireland <direland@private> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4292399.stm Iran jails blogger for 14 years An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries. Arash Sigarchi was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists. Mr Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was sentenced by a revolutionary court in the Gilan area. His sentence, criticised by human rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders, comes a day after an online "day of action" to secure his release. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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