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Occupy Wall Street protester vows to fight subpoena over Twitter account (7 February 2012) (United States)

guardian.co.uk

A writer and Occupy Wall Street activist whose tweets have become the subject of a subpoena by a New York prosecutor is seeking to quash the order in court.

A lawyer for Malcolm Harris, 23, who was arrested along with 700 protesters on the Brooklyn bridge last October, filed a motion on Monday against the subpoena, which demanded the release of all of his tweets over a three-month period.

Harris – a writer whose Twitter bio reads "Real stories, callous revolutionary fervor, trickery" – is known in the Occupy movement as the trickster behind false claim that Radiohead were going to hold a concert at Zuccotti Park in New York.

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