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Zimbabwe Makes Arrest Over Facebook Comment

Posted by Unknown on from the voluntary-registration dept.

inasity_rules writes "It seems using Facebook/Twitter to try overthrowing a corrupt government can backfire a bit, especially if they are expecting it. In Zimbabwe your Facebook posts can get you arrested. Probably for anything up to and including treason."

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  1. Re:In Zimbabwe anything can get you arrested by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 2, Informative

    And because it's Sub Saharan Africa, there'll be no talk of No Fly Zones, international intervention will come, if it ever came, through an neighbor invading them, like Ethiopia did to Somalia.

  2. Re:They can anywhere. by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Informative

    What existing legal structure? You do realize Mugabe did not win the recent elections but will not step down, right?