Monday, April 20, 2009

South Korean blogger Minerva is freed from jail...

A South Korean online economic commentator who criticized and angered the government but commanded a huge following was freed from jail Monday after a court acquitted him of charges of maliciously spreading false information on the Internet.

The arrest of Park Dae-sung in January and his ensuing trial on charges of spreading false data in public with a harmful intent — a crime punishable by as much as five years in prison — prompted debate about how much freedom of expression should be tolerated in cyberspace in this extensively wired country. More...

See also:

  1. Prison sentence sought for South Korean blogger Minerva...
  2. Phoenix cops raid home of anti-police blogger...
  3. Song of the Grass-Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma) or how Chinese bloggers mock State censorship...

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