Reporters Without Borders reports China has released blogger Hao Wu from detention. Wu spent nearly five months in isolation after being arrested while working on a report about an underground Protestant church. His sister, Na, maintained a blog about Hao’s detention and her campaign to free him.

Currently, 50 bloggers are imprisoned in China for writing about political and subversive subjects.

In Egypt, pro-democracy blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah has been recently released from prison after being arrested for street demonstrating. Abdel-Fattah bravely managed to smuggle blog posts written on scraps of paper for his blog detailing his detention. The Manalaa blog is a beacon of the pro-democracy activist movement in Egypt and a tremendous example of bloggers’ commitment under attempted crackdowns by anti-free speech governments.