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Prita Mulyasari (2nd R) gestures after a judge threw out her case in a defamation trial on June 25, 2009. Prita Mulyasari, an Indonesian mother-of-two was cleared of defamation charges after emails she wrote about poor treatment at a local hospital appeared on social networking website Facebook. In a case that provoked outrage across the mainly Muslim nation, Mulyasari, was facing six years' jail for defamation under the criminal code and had already spent three weeks in a police cell. Her alleged crime was to complain in an email to friends about her treatment for dengue fever at Omni International Hospital outside Jakarta. The hospital filed criminal charges after the emails were widely circulated on Facebook. The courtroom erupted in applause and cheers when Judge Karel Tuffu threw out the case.
