Posted on 02/10/2021 3:10:50 AM PST by RandFan
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will ease its restrictions on free speech, the government said on Tuesday, in response to a nationwide furore over a rapper ordered jailed over a song and tweets.
A change in the law would not by itself prevent the jailing of Pablo Hasel, who has been ordered to surrender by the end of this week to serve a nine-month prison sentence imposed in 2018 under a security law known in Spain as the “gag law”. He has said he will not turn himself in.
Hasel’s lyrics and tweets, which included references to banned guerrilla groups, compared a court to Nazis and called former king Juan Carlos a mafia capo, were found under the 2015 law to have encouraged violence and insulted the monarchy.
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Is this the dems argument in the senate?
The days when we could sneer at the fakeness of 'free speech' in other countries are closing rapidly, if not already gone. Exhibit 1: Trump is on trial for complaining about election fraud.
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