Mercurynews writes: “U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt”
Journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a loud demonstration, and forced him in a jail cell last week, but they weren’t prepared for him to Twitter his way out of there.
He was taking photos at a protest, when the police grabbed him. Before he was released they also grabbed his camera memory chip. But they forgot about Twitter.
Twitter net contacted Cal and the American Embassy. In short, UCB hired an Egyptian lawyer and got James out.
Read more here: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8934411?IADID
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