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Eight-Month Jail Sentence for Facebook Post

By Carolyn Elefant

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It's one thing to be fired for using Facebook. It's quite another to be jailed for it. According to the Reporters Without Borders Web site, 69-year-old human rights activist Khedija Arfaoui is facing an eight-month jail sentence imposed by a court in Tunisia for posting a message on Facebook referring to rumors about children being kidnapped in the country for their organs. On July 4, 2009, Arfaoui was convicted of ?disturbing public order? by "stirring up rebellion by means of speeches in public places or meetings, or placards, posters or written texts ... in public spaces." Apparently the court interpreted...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).

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