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Iran:Reza Valizadeh,a leading blogger was arrested

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 @ 19:04 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Media

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Irã: Reza Valizadeh, liderança entre blogueiros, é preso...

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. [...]

# 2007-11-27 at 21:38 pm

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