Tweet Could Send US Woman to Jail for 20 Years

An American woman living in Zimbabwe could face 20 years in prison for subversion over a tweet. 

According to prosecutors, New Jersey native Martha O'Donovan, 25, tweeted a photo last month of President Robert Mugabe next to a drawing of a catheter and a reference to him being "selfish & sick," per the New York Times and Al Jazeera. 

The tweet came from an anonymous account known to be critical of Zimbabwe's government, but prosecutors say they were crafted by O'Donovan as part of a months-long effort "to incite political unrest" and "replicate offline uprisings like what happened in Tunisia and Egypt" in 2011. O'Donovan says those claims are "baseless and malicious," per the AP. In granting a $1,000 bail on Thursday, a high court judge appeared to agree.

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