Chinese Tweeter Arrested on Wedding Day for Tweeting Joke [Twitter]

China’s not allowed access to Twitter, but obviously there are ” ways” to work around that. Cheng Jianping and her fiancé Hua Chunhui, were two such users. Cheng, however, was arrested for RTing her fiancé’s joke-on their wedding day.

The situation was made even more traumatic, because her family and fiancé weren’t told of her arrest-leading them to think she’d done a runner. Desirous about retweeting her fiancé’s tweet, which said:

” Anti-Japanese demonstrations, smashing Japanese products, that was all done years ago by Guo Quan. It’s no new trick. In the event you really wanted to kick it up a notch, you’d immediately fly to Shanghai to smash the Japanese Expo pavilion.”

It was changed into a joke because she added ” angry youth, charge!” to her retweet.

So, in place of enjoying life as a newlywed, Cheng was sent to a women’s labor camp, where she immediately went on hunger strike. She’s to remain there for a year, for ” disturbing social order.” This comes only per week after Irish chap Paul Chambers was slapped with a guilty verdict for joking he was going to blow up Robin Hood airport in England.

Tweeters, stay vigilant. [ Amnesty via CNET UK ]

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