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  Palestinian Reporter On Trial For Facebook Photo
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Last EditedPenguin  Jan 22, 2011 03:48pm
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News DateSaturday, January 22, 2011 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionA Palestinian TV reporter faces charges of insulting a public figure after being tagged in a Facebook photo that ridicules the Palestinian Authority president, highlighting how social networks can just as easily be used to repress dissent as they can to aid it.

Mamdouh Hamamreh, a correspondent for Palestinian television station Al-Quds, was detained in September after he was tagged in an image of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas next to a picture of a Syrian actor who played a spy in a popular Arab television show, English-language Israeli paper The Jerusalem Post reports. The implication of the image is that Abbas is a traitor.
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