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To the barricades, bloggers (again)
: Middle-Eastern regimes are discovering blogs… and jailing bloggers. Two are in jail in Iran (and one is in exile). Now a Bahraini blogger has been arrested for what he wrote on his blog. His “crimes:”
1. Defaming the royalty
2. Inciting hatred towards the regime
3. Publishing news to destabilize security (“تزعزع الأمن”)
4. Violating the Press Laws
5. Violating the Communication Laws
Much more on the case here. The arrested blogger’s site is here.
To be fair, that first one might get your jailed in Thailand, too. Our ally.
Ok…Lefties, tell me again how America is just as bad as a Middle-Eastern country as far as censorship is concerned.
Mahmood’s Den has some interesting coverage and comments… Mahmood is a Bahraini blogger who’s been at it for a while, and a frequent critic of the Bahraini government and cheerleader for more openness and transparency.
Mumblix: The U.S. can’t throw the first stone on this one. See The Sedition Act of 1918, luckily repealed in 1921.
Just to update you guys, there are now a total of THREE people who have been arrested.