Bloggers arrested

Curt Hopkins of the Committee to Protect Bloggers writes about bloggers who were arrested this past week in Bahrain, Iran and Malaysia:

As Reporters sans Frontières reports, Iranian blogger Mohamad Reza Nasab Abdolahi began a six month prison sentence this week for comments posted on his Webnegar site which supposedly insulted the country's leaders and were considered anti-government propaganda. Hopkins adds that Abdolahi's pregnant wife and fellow blogger, Nasjeh Omidparvar, has also been arrested.

In Bahrain, three moderators of internet discussion forum BahrainOnline have been arrested in the last week. Mohammed Almosawi and Hussain Yousif were detained a day after their colleague, Ali Abdulemam, who faces five possible charges, including defaming the king. Finally Malaysian blogger Jeff Ooi has been questioned by police over comments posted on his blog, Screenshots, back in October.