Mexico’s ‘Twitter Terrorists’ Face 30 Years’ Jail
Pair On Trial for Inciting Mass Panic
A man and a woman in Mexico face possible 30-year sentences for terrorism and sabotage, after allegedly putting false reports of child kidnappings on Twitter.
The Associated Press reports that the posts helped cause “a chaos of car crashes” in Veracruz, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast.
Gilberto Martínez Vera, 48, a private school teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola, a radio presenter, are accused of spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in Veracruz on August 25th this year.
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