Actually happened: French high school student arrested for posting "ironic" cartoon on Facebook.

France begins jailing people for ironic comments

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 01/19/2015 - 13:36

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Mock Charlie Hebdo cover circulated after the murder of the magazine’s cartoonists. The text says “Charlie Hebdo is shit. It doesn’t stop bullets.”

It may sound like an ironic joke, but it isn’t. Less than a week after the massive rallies in defense of “free expression,” following the murders of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, French authorities have jailed a youth for irony.
The arrest is part of a harsh crackdown on free speech in the country that has prompted criticism from national and international human rights organizations.
A 16-year-old high school student was taken into police custody on Thursday and indicted for “defending terrorism,” national broadcaster France 3 reports.
His alleged crime? http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/france-begins-jailing-people-ironic-comments