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.