Monday, January 23, 2006

from Sahar's weblog

Partial translation: Mojtaba Sami'i Nejad (Saminejad), an imprisoned blogger, accompanied with two prison guards, with handcuffs, was permitted to write one of his final exams. He is a student in social communications, in Azad University (Tehran). He couldn't write the first three of his final exams because of the shortcomings of the people in charge. He was not allowed to sit with the other students for the final exam. He had to write it in a separate room, while he was still handcuffed. He was returned after the exam to prison. He is supposed to write the other two finals remaining in the next few days. The silence of the media on his arrest and imprisonment, lead to his stay for a year and a half in prison (88 days in solitary confinement) without even one day of leave. He was arrested and charged because of writing in his weblog, and criticizing and insulting the supreme leader.