Thousands of U.S. teenage girls are participating in an online campaign to free Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Jahar Tsarnaev, claiming he is “innocent.”
The teen girls claimed Tsarnaev should be set free on grounds that the “evidence against him doesn’t add up” and started posting pictures of their hands written with hash tag #FreeJahar on Twitter and Facebook.
One girl even plans to permanently inscribe Jahar’s words on her body.
“(I’m) Getting one of Jahar’s tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. Guess you could say I’m a #FreeJahar supporter,” a teen who works as a waitress in Kansas tweeted on May 7.
A number of Internet users who saw the online movement criticized the girls, saying they were drawn and distracted by Jahar’s looks.
“Most of his supporters were drawn to Jahar by his looks, the best kind of supporters are those fighting for him and putting his looks aside,” one Internet user commented.
The 19-year-old suspect nicknamed “Jahar” is now confined in a U.S. federal prison on charges of terrorism. He is accused of carrying out the bomb attacks at the marathon with his brother Tamerlan on April 15.
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