According to[Fa] Negarakha and many other bloggers,Reza Valizadeh,journalist and blogger,was arrested today in Tehran.The blogger has been Baznegar site's manager.
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[...] According to our friend Hamid Tehrani, Persian editor for Global Voices, Iranian blogger Reza Valizadeh was arrested today. Reza runs, or ran, a site called Baznegar. [...]