Posted on 03/31/2017 1:44:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Spanish court on Wednesday sentenced a young woman to jail for posting jokes on Twitter about the 1973 assassination of a senior figure in the Franco dictatorship.
The National Audience, Spain's top criminal court, found Cassandra Vera, 21, guilty of glorifying terrorism and humiliating victims of terrorism and slapped her with a one-year jail term.
She is unlikely to spend time behind bars though as offenders of non-violent crimes with a sentence of under two years do not serve time in jail.
Vera published 13 tweets between 2013 and 2016 about the assassination of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the prime minister and heir apparent of dictator Francisco Franco who was killed in a car bomb attack in Madrid on December 20, 1973 carried out by the Basque separatist group Eta.
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I don’t believe free speech exists in Europe. It is all propaganda all the time. Real elections cannot occur under these conditions.
And everybody thought Francisco Franco was still dead.
It will be like that here in the US before long.
Concur.
So is Chevy Chase’s career.
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