Eight Months in Jail for Facebook Post
Watch what you post on Facebook if you’re in Tunisia: It could cost you dearly.
A Tunis court imposed an eight-month jail sentence on 69-year-old academic and human-rights activist Khedija Arfaoui for posting a message on the social-networking website in May referring to widespread rumors about children being kidnapped in Tunisia for their organs, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Arfaoui was convicted July 4 for “disturbing public order.” She had no idea she was charged until reading in the newspapers May 31 that her trial was due to start June 6, having received no formal notification until the day before the trial.
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