Mr. Omid Valizadeh, a blogger who operated a blog about current news was arrested on Monday January 26^th 2009.

Mr. Valizadeh, the write or the “Javanroud News” blog and also a political activist in the city of Javanroud was arrested on Monday night by security forces and is still in custody.

It is stated that one of the reasons for his arrest was posting critism about a government representative in the city of Javanroud.

Mr. Valizadehs’ family has no information about his current whereabouts.