Today on the net: the former president of Peru is tweeting from prison; several US states are cracking down on "revenge porn"; and Banksy’s latest public and mobile art installation hits New York City.
Peru’s ex-president Fujimori is tweeting from prison
"Strikes, road blocks, protests against absurd measures… Is the Ollanta-Nadine government deaf? Or just incapable of governing?" This message criticising the Peruvian president Ollanta Humala was posted to Twitter by his predecessor Alberto Fujimori.
The former head of state, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity, is not permitted to give interviews or make public statements. But this clearly hasn’t stopped him from taking to the web to comment on current events in Peru from his prison cell.
Alberto Fujimori published his memoirs online at the end of September and also uses the net to voice his political opinions. And although the authorities aren’t happy about this, there is nothing they can do… as the former president’s lawyer told local press, he uses a public pay phone in the prison to pass on messages to his friends and family who then post them to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
As we can hear in this audio recording posted to Google’s video sharing service, Alberto Fujimori uses these accounts to defend his ten years in office as leader of Peru, particularly as far as the economy and security are concerned. The online charm offensive could well be part of a plan to garner public support for the former head of state’s bid to have his prison term switched to house arrest. He did ask for... Go on reading on our web site.
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