Experts see double standard in U.S. Twitter arrest...

An arrest of a New Yorker for using Twitter to alert anti-capitalist protesters at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh to police movements would be deemed a human rights violation if it happened in Iran or China and raises free speech concerns, experts and rights activists say.

Pittsburgh police arrested Elliot Madison, 41, on September 24, the first day of a meeting of leaders from the G20 rich and developing nations, and accused him of using the online social networking site to help protesters avoid apprehension.

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"The same conduct in Iran or China during recent demonstrations would be called human right violations whereas here it's called necessary crime control," Vic Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, told Reuters. "It's a real double standard." Full story...

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