Bahrain Sends Six To Prison For A Year For 'Insulting' Tweets
There are consequences for what you tweet – particularly if you live in Bahrain. A court there just sentenced six people to jail time for posting insults.
Yeah, you’d probably be looking at a life sentence for the stuff YOU tweet. I know I won’t be visiting that lovely locale any time soon!
Al Jazeera reports a “Bahraini court has sentenced six Twitter users to one year in prison for allegedly insulting King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, according to the public prosecutor’s office.”
The six were charged by the lower criminal court with “misusing the right of free expression,” the government statement, which was posted online, said on Wednesday.
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