Two years ago photographer from South Korea was arrested for re-tweeting tweets from North Korea's official account. He was charged under South Korea's draconian National Security law which makes it a crime to praise the North.
Unfortunately for South Korean prosecutors the Supreme Court didn't agree to their assertion he was a threat to national security.
Unfortunately for South Korean prosecutors the Supreme Court didn't agree to their assertion he was a threat to national security.
South Korea's top court has acquitted a man accused of sympathising with North Korea by retweeting posts by its government, arguing that his action poses little threat to national security.
Park Jeong-Geun, a 26-year-old photographer, was arrested and charged in 2012 of violating the National Security Law by retweeting posts by the North's official Twitter account.
Under the notorious anti-communist law, South Koreans are banned from activities deemed to be praising or sympathising with the North, which is still technically at war with the South.
A district court handed Park a suspended jail term but an appellate court later found him innocent.
The supreme court of Korea upheld the acquittal, after prosecutors appealed the ruling, saying his actions "did not pose tangible threats to national security."
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