Cairo: — The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today announced the release of a new guide under the series "A Guide to Publication Cases", which is dedicated for the micro-blogging site "Twitter". The manual clarifies the legal situation of what has been published on Twitter, which has widely spread in the Arab world to become one of the most frequent causes of prosecutions of its users. This is not only because of writing or posting news via it, but the matter reaches to the trial of its users due to re-tweeting or adding something to the favorite list.
"Twitter and Law" guide addresses the legal situation towards Twitterers' different activists on the site, and under which cases publishing can be considered as illegal; confirming whether criminal prosecution or imprisonment in publication cases is inadmissible or not.
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