"Blogger who vowed to expose Saudi corruption is arrested" from the UK Independent reports on Saudi blogger Fouad al-Farhan who has been arrested for his efforts to uncover corruption in the Kingdom - this sending a chill through the Saudi Internet community.
Mr. Farhan, 32, who describes his online mission as "searching for freedom, dignity, justice, equality, public participation and other lost Islamic values", had already broken ground by refusing to hide behind a pen-name as he vented his spleen about the rampant corruption blighting political life. Now he has clocked up another first – the first blogger to be arrested in the kingdom.
The blogger was picked up on 10 December from the offices of his computer company in Jeddah, but it was not until this week that the interior ministry finally confirmed his arrest.
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