Tuesday, February 22, 2005

"Free Mojtaba and Arash Day"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4278241.stm Global blogger action day called By Jo Twist The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers. The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day". Arash Sigarchi is still in Lakan prison in the Iranian city of Rashat. Fellow Iranian blogger Mojtaba Saminejad has been released from prison in Tehran but still faces charges. They have both been deprived of their liberty by the Iranian government for expressing opinions on their blogs. http://committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/ http://iranbloggers.blogspot.com/ http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/22/022429.php http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68708 If you are in the United States, contact either the Representative at the Iranian Interest Section of the Pakistani Embassy or the Ambassador to Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. (Iran has no embassy in the United States.) Here is the contact information. Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran http://www.un.int/iran/ 622 Third Ave. New York, NY 10017 Tel: (212) 687-2020 / Fax: (212) 867-7086 E-mail: Email the ambassador mailto:iran@un.int Iranian Representative Embassy of Pakistan Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran http://www.daftar.org/Eng/default.asp?lang=eng 2209 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20007 Email the Interests Section mailto:requests@daftar.org

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