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Palestinian Reporter On Trial For Facebook Photo

A 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 […] Continue reading

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