Two people jailed in Mexico’s Veracruz state and charged with terrorism because of a series of alarmist tweets were freed Wednesday. Authorities dropped the charges, and the pair walked out of prison to cheering supporters.

“Thank God that freedom of expression won,” Maria de Jesus Bravo, a local journalist and radio commentator, said to the crowd. She and Gilberto Martinez Vera, a math teacher, spent nearly four weeks in jail after they sent out Twitter messages about a supposed attack on a primary school by drug gangs.

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