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S Korea arrested Park Jeong-geun on charges that he retwitted messages from N Korea on Twitter

TheAntiqueTrade.co.uk said...: Park Jeong-geun, a member of the small Seoul-based opposition party, was indicted earlier this week under the National Security Law, which makes it a crime to praise, sympathize or cooperate with North Korea, fellow party member Kim Seung-il said.

Amnesty International called the government's action "ludicrous." Calls to prosecutors seeking comment were unanswered late Thursday.

Park, 23, who runs a photo studio in Seoul, was detained last month for re-tweeting messages posted on the Twitter account of North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, Kim said.

Among the messages Park reposted were "Long live Kim Jong Il" and "Dear General Kim Jong Il is the genius of the military and the symbol of victory who the entire world looks up to and follows," according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Park, however, only re-tweeted the messages to promote freedom of expression and lampoon the North's government, Kim said. Park has been critical of the North's government and didn't intend to praise it, Kim said.

Amnesty International issued a statement Wednesday criticizing Park's indictment.; 2 February 2012 18:09

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