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Spain: Rapper Pablo Hasel locks himself in university to avoid jail

Oluwaseye Ogunsanya February 15, 2021 15


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Pablo Hasel, 33, is known for radical leftist views
A Spanish rapper has barricaded himself inside a Catalan university to avoid a prison sentence for tweets and lyrics that attacked the monarchy and police.

Pablo Hasel was given until last Friday to turn himself in, after being sentenced to nine months for glorifying terrorism, and slandering the crown and state institutions.

But he has tweeted that he is with supporters inside Lleida University.

“They’ll have to break in to take me and jail me,” he tweeted defiantly.

Besides attacks on the monarchy, the musician’s tweets and lyrics accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators and migrants.

Lleida University is in the city of Lérida (Lleida in Catalan), 150km (90 miles) west of Barcelona. He is with about 20 supporters there.

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More than 200 artists, including film director Pedro Almodóvar and Hollywood star Javier Bardem, have signed a petition against his jailing.

The Spanish government plans to reduce the penalty for “crimes of expression” such as the glorification of terrorism, hate speech and insults to the crown and religion, in cases that involve artistic or cultural activities.

In one message Hasel expressed support for Victoria Gómez, a jailed member of the banned Marxist group Grapo. Elsewhere he accused King Felipe VI and his father Juan Carlos, the former king, of several crimes. Hasel’s real name is Pablo Rivadulla Duro.

In a similar case, another rapper, known as Valtònyc, was jailed for three-and-a-half-years in Spain, but he fled to Belgium where, in 2018, a court decided not to extradite him. He remains wanted under a Spanish arrest warrant.

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