BoingBoing reports that a Guatemalan Twitter user, Jean Ramses Anleu Fern√°ndez (@jeanfer), was arrested for “inciting panic.” The charge was levied based on this Tweet, which encourages people to withdraw their funds from Banrural bank.

The Guatemalan bank Banrural is at the center of the country’s current political crisis: the recently assassinated attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg represented a finance expert, Khalil Musa, who was said to have refused to participate in corrupt transactions involving that bank. Musa, was assassinated in March. After continuing to make statements about alleged government complicity in that murder, and in the financial crimes Musa protested, Rosenberg was himself shot to death this past Sunday. Days before his murder, Rosenberg recorded a video saying he believed he would soon be assassinated by forces acting at the orders of Guatemalan president √Ålvaro Colom. After his death, the video spread virally on YouTube, sparking widespread protests on and offline.

Today, Twitter user “Jeanfer” was arrested for suggesting in a tweet that people who had money deposited in Banrural should remove those funds, and by doing so, break the control that corrupt entities have over the state-controlled financial institution.

It seems clear that the arrest was far less about any alleged financial panic than it was about culpability for the murders of Musa and Rosenberg and the possible link of those assasinations to the office of the Guatemalan president.

Email, write or call Gert Rosenthal, Guatemala’s Ambassador to the United Nations, and let him know you’ve got your eye on @jeanfer.