Reporters Without Borders selected around 60 blogs that, each in their own way, defend freedom of expression. The organisation then asked Internet-users to vote for the prize-winners - one in each geographical category. More information about the Blog awards.

After two months of voting, here are the results:

	Screenshot www.jeffooi.com Country: Malaysia Language: English
	An extremely popular blog that takes an independent approach to Malaysian politics and society. Its editor, Jeff Ooi, was threatened with imprisonment, at the beginning of October 2004, because he allowed on his blog a comment “insulting Islam”.
	Shared Pains kabul2.blogsky.com Country: Afghanistan Language: Farsi
	A blog commenting on Afghanistan’s political and social life with a forthrightness rarely found in this country
Joint winners
	Al Jinane www.emarrakech.info/prana Country: Morocco Language: French
	A blog run by a Moroccan trying to “understand the complexity of the world”.
	ICT lex www.ictlex.net Country: Italy Language: Italian
	A blog on Internet law and new technologies
	Press Think journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink Country: United States Language: English
	A blog run by an American journalist dealing with the media and free expression in the age of the Internet
	Mojtaba Saminejad 8mdr8.blogspot.com Country: Iran Language: Farsi
	A weblog that earned its editor, Mojtaba Saminejad, a two year prison sentence in June 2005 (See: www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12563). In a demonstration of solidarity the 10 webloggers named here, who were also nominated for a prize, all voted for Mojtaba.They were: Nikahang, Shabah, Mithras, Khorshidkhanoom, Z8un, Memarian, Ghaja, Webnaameh, Shabnamefekr, Shargi.
	Netzpolitik www.netzpolitik.org Country: Germany Language: German
	A blog dealing with open source technologies, Internet-users’ rights and free expression in cyberspace.

The competition for the best free expression blogs was organised in partnership with Deutsche Welle’s "Best of the Blogs awards".