I get to laugh at adolescent humour in blogging, discuss culture and theology, and call the Canadian Prime Minister Mr. Dithers without fear of reprisal.

It isn’t that way in Iran.

According to human rights group Reporters sans frontieres:

An Iranian blogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of “spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries”

Arash Sigarchi was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists.

Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was arrested in January after using his blog to ciriticise the arrest of other bloggers.

There is a blog set up that tracks what is happening to bloggers called Committee to Protect Bloggers.