Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Man Thrown in prison because someone Tagged him in a photo that he wasn't even in.

Amplify’d from www.allfacebook.com
Imagine someone else tagging you in a Facebook photo you don’t even appear in and then getting arrested because of it.  That’s  what  journalist Mamdouh Hamamreh is going through. He was falsely labeled in an image mocking Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by superimposing his likeness into a picture of a well-known Syrian soap opera villain.
In conversation with the Associated Press, Hamamreh explained that he was detained by police authorities just a few hours after being tagged in said photo. Again, and according to him, he hadn’t taken the picture or uploaded it, and his face wasn’t in it. He didn’t even tag himself. After being held up in a Palestinian lock-up for 50 days, he was released in November and faces trial next month.
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