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201823
Wed, 08/17/2011 - 10:07
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Britain Jails 2 Men for Using Facebook during Unrests
TEHRAN (FNA)- The British police arrested and jailed two men from Cheshire for using Facebook for what the authorities called provoking the public sentiment during the recent unrests in the country.
Two men from Cheshire were jailed for four years each for using Facebook to incite disorder during riots in Britain last week.
Jordan Blackshaw, 21, of Vale Road, Marston and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Richmond Avenue, Warrington, were jailed at Chester Crown Court.
The Recorder of Chester, Judge Elgan Edwards praised the swift actions of Cheshire Police.
He said he hoped the sentences would act as a deterrent to others.
Both men pleaded guilty under sections 44 and 46 of the Serious Crime Act to intentionally encouraging another to assist the commission of an indictable offence.
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests have spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
Two men from Cheshire were jailed for four years each for using Facebook to incite disorder during riots in Britain last week.
Jordan Blackshaw, 21, of Vale Road, Marston and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Richmond Avenue, Warrington, were jailed at Chester Crown Court.
The Recorder of Chester, Judge Elgan Edwards praised the swift actions of Cheshire Police.
He said he hoped the sentences would act as a deterrent to others.
Both men pleaded guilty under sections 44 and 46 of the Serious Crime Act to intentionally encouraging another to assist the commission of an indictable offence.
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests have spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
