To the barricades, bloggers (again and again)
: Reporters Without Borders says that the pregant wife of a jailed Iranian blogger has been thrown in jail herself for daring to defend her husband:
Reporters Without Borders said it was appalled by the imprisonment of pregnant student, Najmeh Oumidparvar, 26 – wife of weblogger Mohamad Reza Nasab Abdolahi – who has been imprisoned in her turn, one week after her husband.
Oumidparvar, who is three month pregnant, has her own weblog (http://www.faryadebeseda.persianblog.com – Dawn of Freedom). She has been accused of defending her husband too openly. On the eve of her arrest she gave an interview to German radio Deutsche Welle. A few days earlier she posted on her own weblog a message her husband had written shortly before his arrest. In it, he claimed the right to express himself freely adding that he was “waiting for the police handcuffs”…
: FRIDAY UPDATE: Hoder has more perspective.
