South Korean Man Thrown In Jail For Retweeting The North
Amnesty International is urging South Korea to release a man they have in custody. And his crime? Retweeting their Northern enemy.
Tension between North and South Korea has always been thick, and now it’s spilling over to Twitter.
As the AFP reports, Socialist Party activist Park Jeong-Geun was arrested in January for retweeting messages from the official government Twitter account for North Korea, including a tweet that read “Long Live General Kim Jong-Il.”
He has been behind bars since January 11th, and faces up to 7 years in prison for his crime, which falls under the very strict National Security Law.
In his defense, Jeong-Geun claims that he was being sarcastic in his retweets, meaning to ridicule the North rather than support it.
Amnesty
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