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Youth Sentenced to Years in Jail for Posting Facebook Notices During British Riots

Submitted on August 18, 2011

By Robert Stevens - 18 August 2011

The state clampdown against working class youth in Britain continues unabated. On Tuesday, crown court judges in England handed down long jail sentences to two young men for posting comments on Facebook...Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, were not involved in any disturbances. But at Chester Crown Court they were sentenced to four years imprisonment for “intentionally encouraging another to assist the commission of an indictable offence...”

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