A little over a month back, we ran an interview with Eric Volz as a part of our coverage of the Berkeley Human Rights Center's conference, The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media. Volz was a panelist at the conference, where he discussed his experience as a political prisoner in Nicaragua, the online campaign which helped to keep his case alive, and the pros and cons of staging similar campaigns.

While working on a magazine in Nicaragua, Eric Volz was convicted in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in November of 2006. He spent a little over a year in jail there until the conviction was overturned by an appeals court in December of the following year.

After learning of today's news regarding his international legal standing, it almost seems that Eric Volz may never again find himself feeling totally free.