Mexico Drops Charges Against "Twitter Terrorists"

Two Mexican citizens arrested for terrorism in early September have been freed. The charges were laid based on tweets they sent mistakenly warning of an elementary school under attack by gunman.

Gilberto Martinez, a math teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo, a local radio host, were behind bars for over three weeks.

The pair had tweeted that gunmen from drug gangs had taken over a local school in the city of Veracruz. One tweet from Martinez is said to have read:

“I can confirm this, at the Jorge Arroyo school in the Carranza district, five children have been taken away by an armed group.

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