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Blogger Busts Tripled Last Year: Report

Posted Jun 16, 08 10:49 CDT in World Technology 

(Newser) – The number of blogging "citizen journalists" arrested worldwide in political crackdowns tripled in 2007 from the previous year, Ars Technica reports. Over half of last year's 36 arrests occurred in Egypt, Iran, and China, according to a new survey, which sorted arrests into six categories, most related to stirring up political controversy.

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Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, a Malaysian blogger, is pictured in court for implying that the deputy prime minister was involved in the sensational murder of a young Mongolian woman, May 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil, 22, who has been in detention since his arrest in early November 2006, peers from a prison vehicle in Cairo, Egypt in this Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo)
Blogger arrests tripled in 2007 from the year before, a report says.   (Shutterstock)
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