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Friday, 23rd July 2010

Social Media: Venezuela: Twitter Users Arrested on Charges of Spreading Rumors

The following news item comes from a Global Legal Monitor post from the Law Library of Congress. You can add this one to your freedom of speech and/or social media folders.

By Wendy Zeldin

Two individuals charged with "the dissemination over the social network Twitter of false rumors for the purpose of destabilizing the national banking system...and causing runs on banks," were arrested on July 8, 2010, in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, by officers of the Scientific, Penal, and Criminalistics Investigations Corps (CICPC).

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Luis Enrique Acosta Oxford, 41 years old, and Carmen Cecilia Nares Castro, 35, could face an 11-year prison sentence for the Twitter posts that began on March 9, 2010, and allegedly spread rumors about bank takeovers. The CICPC confiscated a cell phone and other electronic devices during a search it conducted in connection with the arrests. (Id.)

According to Wilmer Flores, National Director of the CICPC, the arrests would serve as an example to persons who spread rumors on Twitter and "[a]ny individual who propagates ill intentioned rumors through any medium is committing a crime and is answerable for it to the appropriate authorities." (Id.)

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Source: Global Legal Monitor, Law Library of Congress

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