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Journalist and blogger Sina Motallebi has been arrested by Iranian police, apparently for giving interviews to foreign media. Via Hossein Derakhshan.

Sina Motallebi was taken to jail after he responded to a summons Saturday to report to a police station for interrogation, Farnaz Ghazizadeh told The Associated Press. She said police promised to release her husband in two days, but she believed he would be held longer.

“Sina has been summoned by the judiciary several times over the past four months,” Ghazizadeh said. “They object to materials in his web site including interviews he gave to foreign media.’”

Motallebi runs the Farsi Web site www.rooznegar.com, which he developed after the hard-line judiciary banned the reformist newspaper he wrote for, the daily Hayat-e-Nou, or New Era. The newspaper had published a cartoon showing the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution, being crushed by a hand.

– AP, Iranian Journalist Held Over Interviews.