Posted on 11/03/2017 11:05:08 PM PDT by BeadCounter
Zimbabwean police detained a U.S. citizen and seized her laptop on Friday on suspicion of calling President Robert Mugabe a “Goblin” on Twitter, the first arrest since the creation of a Ministry of Cyber Security last month, her lawyers said.
US citizen Martha O'Donovan has been arrested in Zimbabwe for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter.
In a tweet, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) group said Ms O’Donovan – the manager of Magamba TV, an online-based satirical video outlet – was the first person to be arrested on such grounds since the ministry was formed.
Police arrested Ms O’Donovan during a dawn raid at her home in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, seizing electronic devices, including computers and a phone, ZLHR’s Obey Shava said in a statement.
Police had not yet charged her but they alleged that “tweets emanating from her IT address are insulting to the president”, Mr Shava was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.
(Excerpt) Read more at nehandaradio.com ...
The natural question, what's somebody like this doing there?
BTW, some reports have her as having said more than just this "goblin" remark.
Police accuse O'Donovan of tweeting "We are being led by a selfish and sick man," from the Twitter handle @matigary, said her lawyer, Obey Shava with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The tweet had a photo illustration of the 93-year-old Mugabe with a catheter, the charge sheet said.
Wait till someone shows the movie “Leprechaun” and retitles it “Mugabe”. They will be shot on the spot.
Nothing like a PC Marxist state to destroy free speech. Oh, wait. We have it here in many cities and universities in the U.S.
FLEE the thought police, now!
Goblin?
I would have said Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Photo should be at original link if for some reason, it doesn’t show up now.
Anyone have her CV?
Twitter makes people stupid.
We DO NOT want her back...
This nyu grad remained an in descretion moron even after her crappy “education”. I agree...do not send this sjw’s loser back here.
This nyu grad remained an indescrete moron even after her crappy “education”. I agree...do not send this sjw’s loser back here.
“Police arrested Ms O’Donovan during a dawn raid at her home in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, seizing electronic devices, including computers and a phone...”
Who do they think they are, the FBI?
We do indeed sir. I wonder what she said that was not true? I guess it really is true, that in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. All these scum bag snowflakes ❄️ in ANTIFA, should take up residence in that utopian paradise. It would bring them back to reality.
Hey, dummie, not every country let you freely trash its president on the Twitter the way the U.S. does.
“Hi! I’m an idiot!”
Is there any possibility she’s on a CIA-sponsored adventure, stirring up the pot against the gov?
Just think, if the 2016 presidential election had been a disaster, we could already be seeing arrests of those who used the word “cankles”.
Will some one please tell this idiot snowflake that you can only do those things in a free country much like the one she hates
Beat her with her useless DIPloma first .
Yesterday, Rush suggested that we have a national study program in which young SWJs get to spend time in Communist hellholes. Looks like this head-full-of-mush instituted it!
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/04/american-who-allegedly-called-zimbabwe-president-sick-man-on-twitter-charged-with-subversion.html
She’ll be finding out how jails in turd world countries work. Wonder if she thinks she has Constitutional rights over there?
Rules are different overseas, kiddies. Let’s review: In America you CAN call the President of the USA any name you want. In most of the rest of the world if you call the head of state a similar name you will be arrested, held without charge and quite possibly tortured. If you’re lucky they’ll ransom you back to the US after a few years.
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