The BBC has an article by the same name, dealing with the imprisonment and torture accorded to those who oppose the mullahs.

Iran is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to keep an online diary.

Web logs have become a popular forum for dissent. And the Iranian government has responded by arresting dozens of bloggers.

Some of those detained are reportedly being held in solitary confinement and tortured.

Bloggers Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both currently in prison in Iran.

Mr Sigarchi has been in detention since 17 January while Mr Saminejad was first detained in November.

“Freedom of expression is really at stake at the moment,” says Julien Pain, who runs the Internet Freedom Desk at the Paris based group Reporters without Borders.

“The Iranian authorities have been clamping down on regular media for a long time, but it’s only in the last six months that they’re harshly attacking cyber-dissidents and webloggers. It’s really a serious situation.”

See my related post on an LA Times piece that details the exact story of a woman who suffered the same thing. It’s really sad.