Friday, February 25, 2005

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Blogger fired, eh, jailed

There are plenty of stories about bloggers being fired for blogging, but this is the first time I hear about someone being jailed for 14 years for blogging:



An Iranian blogger accused of spying and counter-revolutionary activities has been jailed for 14 years. Newspaper editor Arash Sigarchi - whose blog criticised an Iranian crackdown on similar websites which has resulted in around 20 arrests - was himself cuffed in January on charges of "espionage, insulting the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei", the BBC reports.

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