Arrested Bloggers

**64 individuals have been arresed worldwide, serving a collective 78 years in prison.

**8 years is the longest sentence that the WIA found, given to 4 chinease reporters in 2003 for “subverting state power; forming informal discussion group.”

**22 percent of those arrested last year were charged with using a blog to organise or cover a protest; 17 percent were for violating cultural norms; another 17 for commenting on public policy; and 11 percent for exposing corruption or human-rights violations.

**Antonis Tsipropoulos was arrested at home on Tuesday by the Greek police following a complaint from a controversial Greek televangelist that Mr Tsipropoulos's blog aggregation site, blogme.gr, linked to slanderous material.

**The content in question is hosted at the FunEL blog, and mocks the colourful Dimosthenis Liakopoulos for producing trash TV and being anti-Semitic.