I’ve just received word that the Iranians have sentenced Arash Sigarchi to 14 years in prison for being a reporter- and even then all he was doing was commenting on the imprisonment of other bloggers. The charges included espionage and ‘insulting the country’s leaders’. I doubt if Arash’s blog constituted the former (was he mentioning military secrets in his blog? I doubt it somehow) while the latter is abhorrent in any country in which the government has respect for human rights. Unfortunately it appears that Iran is not such a country.