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| Morocco teen jailed for 3 months for Obama tweet threat |
| 2013-10-26 |
[Al Ahram] A Moroccan court on Friday tossed in the clinkDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a teenager for three months for threatening to kill US President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... on Twitter, judicial sources said. The 17-year-old identified as Soufiane I. pleaded guilty at a Casablanca court to "electronic crimes" and "calling for violence via electronic media," after posting the death threat last year. "I will kill your president and everyone in his company. It's what I'm going to do when I arrive in the United States next month," the youth wrote on his Twitter feed. The teenager was nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! around two months ago in Casablanca. He is due to serve his sentence at the city's Oukacha juvenile detention centre, the judicial sources told AFP. The court hearing was closed to the media, and it was not immediately known whether the young Moroccan's lawyers planned to appeal. Time spent in pre-trial detention is normally deducted from jail sentences in Morocco. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 He was released about a month ago. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-26 11:55 |
| #1 Has the guy who is accused of making the schlocky movie that inspired Benghazi violence (sarc on) ever made it out of Obozo's jail? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-26 10:37 |