Sina Motallebi, bloggers united for the Iranian colleague arrested.

In the various stories of censorship activist network , now increasingly common not only in the military or totalitarian regimes, that of Sina Motallebi are taking traits. The Iranian activist has a solid background as a journalist for print media, working as a film critic and has written policy for the reformist journalist Ham Mihan, but had risen to popularity with his weblog in Persian called ' Webgard ', now desolately empty after that his family fearing further reprisals has removed the content. Bloggers seem to be particularly popular in Iran where even manage to organize meetings for women on March 8, and where some of them are candidates in city elections, despite being cut off from the protest reformer who defected to the polls. Motallebi had done interviews with foreign media and publicly defended a colleague who had published an old cartoon offensive of the government, and was arrested and charged with 'threatening national security'. The fellow bloggers and also Moallemian Pedram, a resident of San Diego wrote immediately an online petition that was promptly signed by more than 3,500 people and spread like wildfire in the international community of bloggers, until you enter the charts Daypop and Blogdex of the leading blogs.