Friday, December 8, 2006

More Internet journalists jailed

When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog. Nearly one-third of journalists now serving time in prisons around the world published their work on the Internet, the second-largest category behind print journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in an analysis released Thursday. The bulk of <A HREF="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAILED_JOURNALISTS?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-07-21-46-41">Internet journalists in jail</A>--49 in total--shows that "authoritarian states are becoming more determined to control the Internet," said Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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