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Friday 16th March 2018
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The right to free speech
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SPAIN´S clampdown on freedom of expression has come “under attack” following a series of high-profile cases hitting the headlines. The European Court of Human Rights ruled this week that the controversial burning of a photograph of King Juan Carlos in 2007 was not a criminal offence but a form of free political expression. And in a new report Amnesty International has also slammed Spain for the growing use of criminal law to
by Jack Troughton
control freedom of speech – coupled with the use of the so-called ´gag law´ to deflect criticism. Both come at a time there is a national debate about the limits of freedom in Spain and the way the courts were used to punish what the state saw as excesses. Two Catalan separatists burned an upside down picture of the then Spanish king and queen during an
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anti-monarchist demonstration in Gerona; ahead of a visit by the then King Juan Carlos. A year later, the pair was sentenced by the high court to each pay €2,700 fine or serve 15 months behind bars for insulting the Crown. The protesters lost their appeal in Spain but took the case to Europe. The Strasbourg judges ruled information and ideas that offended, shocked or disturbed, had a place in a democratic society given to pluralism,
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