JaypeeOnline » human rights http://jaypeeonline.net Technology, Blogging News, WordPress Theme and Plugin Reviews, Tips and Tricks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:41:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Student Uses Twitter To Get Out Of Jailhttp://jaypeeonline.net/news/student-uses-twitter-to-get-out-of-jail/ http://jaypeeonline.net/news/student-uses-twitter-to-get-out-of-jail/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:58:18 +0000 Jaypee Habaradas http://jaypeeonline.net/?p=567 Freed man now uses Twitter to help friend". Here's a short summary and some excerpts from the article that I read from CNN.James Karl Buck James Karl BuckJames Karl Buck, an American student working on a photography project in Egypt for his master's thesis was arrested together with his interpreter while taking photographs of local anti-government protests over low wages and rising food prices. He was able to get out of jail with the help of Twitter.
James Karl Buck was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word blog post from his cell phone through the Twitter Web site. The message -- "Arrested" -- alerted all of his friends on the site of his detention.
When his college found out about the situation, they hired a lawyer who then got him out of prison. Now that he's a free man, Buck is using his Twitter network (611 followers as of writing) to help free his friend Mohammed Maree.

]]> Was checking my mail earlier morning when this headline from CNN caught my attention: “Freed man now uses Twitter to help friend“. Here’s a short summary and some excerpts from the article that I read from CNN.

James Karl Buck
James Karl Buck

James Karl Buck, an American student working on a photography project in Egypt for his master’s thesis was arrested together with his interpreter while taking photographs of local anti-government protests over low wages and rising food prices. He was able to get out of jail with the help of Twitter*.

James Karl Buck was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word blog post from his cell phone through the Twitter Web site. The message — “Arrested” — alerted all of his friends on the site of his detention.

When his college found out about the situation, they hired a lawyer who then got him out of prison. Now that he’s a free man, Buck is using his Twitter network (611 followers as of writing) to help free his friend Mohammed Maree.

Mohammed Maree
Mohammed Maree

“He’s only in prison … because he wanted to help me,” Buck said. “Now I’ve got to repay the favor.”

Mohammed Maree was an Egyptian veterinary student who offered to be his interpreter and help him with his project. Maree is still being detained in prison as of this moment.

CNN’s full story here

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If you’d like to get updates regarding this story and/or join in helping free Mohammed Maree from jail, you can follow James Buck on Twitter – http://twitter.com/jamesbuck or on his personal blog Journalism is Not a Crime.

*Twitter is a social-networking blog site that allows users to send status updates, or “tweets,” from cell phones, instant messaging services and Facebook in less than 140 characters.

*photos taken from CNN.com

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