For example, in Iran, the world's youngest detained blogger, 18-year-old Navid Mohebbi, is currently being tried behind closed doors before a revolutionary court in the northern city of Amol.
His lawyer is not being allowed to attend the trial, which began on 14 November.
Mohebbi is facing the possibility of a long prison sentence, accused of "activities contrary to national security" and "insulting the Islamic Republic's founder and current leader...by means of foreign media." He has also been accused of being member of the "One Million Signatures" movement, a campaign to collect signatures to a petition for changes to laws that discriminate against women.
Mohebbi is but one of many bloggers being persecuted in Iran. For example, one Blogger was sentenced to 14 years in prison for membership in the banned "One Million Signatures" campaign, which advocates for freedom and equality for women.
He was also charged with acting against national security, propaganda against the state through connection with foreign media, and insulting Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei.
The list of writers, journalists, and bloggers currently in prison in Iran includes some of Iran's most distinguished journalists, some of the country's leading bloggers, and Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar and social planner who was sentenced in August 2009 to 15 years in prison following a mass trial of 140 activists, intellectuals, and writers accused of fomenting a "velvet revolution."
The Committee to Protect Journalists this month announced that the 47 journalists now in prison in Iran are more than any other country on earth has imprisoned at any one time since 1996.
Egypt, where I used to live, is still ruled by the aging authoritarian Hosni Mubarak under a "temporary" Emergency Law that is now 30 years old. There, a military court has sent a man to jail for starting a Facebook group to advise would-be army recruits, his lawyer said.
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