Guatemalan Twitter User Arrested for "Inciting Financial Panic"

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Guatemalan twitter user "Jeanfer" was arrested and accused being causing "Financial Panic", because of his opinion posted in the social network Twitter.com

Jean Anleu suggested in a tweet that people who had funds deposited in Banrural should remove those funds, and doing so "break the bank of the corrupts".

Contributor: Surizar
Tags: Politics, Guatemalan twitter user arrested, social network, Twitter user arrested, website, Internet, Guatemalan twitter user arrested, Banrural, corrupt, banks, Twitter, Social Network, guatemala
Location :NORTH AMERICA, Guatemala, Guatemala
Date: 14 May 2009 - 12:45pm

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