FREE MOJTABA AND ARASH

Mojtaba Saminejad and Arash Sigarchi, according to the Committee to Protect Bloggers, are two Iranian bloggers who were arrested and thrown in jail for blogging against the Iranian government. Read about Sigarchi's arrest. Saminejad has been released but still faces charges.

Mind you, neither of these bloggers are American citizens--this is not another one of my "Fight BigBrother" type posts. This is about the larger human community and about protecting fellow-bloggers in other countries that don't have it as lucky as I and other American bloggers do. In short, we've got to do something, anything we can, to help people in this situation.

Blogs are the new media--like it or not. The old media are mostly too big and too motivated by profit. We need to pick up the slack and get truth out in every country in the world. It's a big job, but together, we can do it.

So...

If you have a blog please blog about their situation preferably today, Feb 22, 2005 which has been named by the CtPB. Learn more about their situation.

Who knows, you may need protecting one day...