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Student Detained for Creating Parody Account

  • Date of Occurrence
    July 21, 2020
  • State/Country
    Osun, Nigeria
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''A student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, has spent nearly two months in police custody for allegedly setting up a Twitter parody account of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

A parody account is a type of profile on social media that is named after popular persons and used mainly for comic purposes. Twitter rules allow for parody accounts on the condition that the operator of the account indicates this on his profile page.''

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  • State/Country
    Osun
  • Source
    https://punchng.com/student-detained-54-days-for-creating-parody-twitter-account-of-jonathan/
Location
  • Osun, Nigeria

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Region
  • South West
Rights & Freedom Violated
  • Freedom of Expression
Gender of Victim(s)
  • Male

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