Corner Brook man files appeal after being detained for tweets

A Corner Brook man is claiming he was unlawfully detained under mental health legislation, after making a tweet that called for all politicians to be executed in the wake of Donald Dunphy's shooting death. 

Andrew Abbass was picked up by the RNC and held in the psychiatric unit at Western Memorial Hospital for seven days after officials read two tweets he made at government officals. 

The second tweet made by Abbass asked officials, "Are you ready to come and shoot me?"

But Abbass says that his tweets did not constitute an actual threat.

He says that the RNC had no right to pick him up after reading his tweets, and the hospital had no right to hold him under the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act. 

Abbass has filed an appeal that will be heard in court in February.