I recently began doing volunteer work for the Committee to Protect Bloggers and my First POST is completed and should be up on the site very soon, here's a copy!:

On May 15, 2004 French blogger Christophe Grébert (MONPUTEAUX.COM) from the wealthy city of Puteaux was arrested by local police under direct order of the Puteaux Mayor; but National Police intervened and released Christophe as soon as they found out.

The Committee to Protect Bloggers recently contacted Christophe for an update on his situation.

Since his arrest in 2004 Christophe says he has been victim to "real harassment" by the local government (Town Hall). The Mayor admits to using special powers ( droit de préemption ) to place "toilsome" people in a flat near Christophe's, and has spent in excess of 40,000 Euros on judicial action against Christophe.

Christophe Grébert is taking donations on his blog through Paypal to cover his defence costs, receiving over 3500 euros so far. “I could keep blogging, because of the solidarity of the Puteolians and of the net surfers.” Christophe said of his supporters.

Monputeaux.com was created on May 1st 2002. Now the Monputeaux gets more than 2000 comments, 45000 visitors and 90.000 hits each month. Last year Monputeaux.com selected by Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) for the “Freedom Blog Award 2005”. [/snip]

Christophe pointed us to this article: