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| Subject: Protests as Spain's gag law comes into force Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:49 pm | |
| The United Nations and Council of Europe have already warned Spain that legalizing the sending back of immigrants would contradict the European Court of Human Rights, which prohibits collective expulsions.
The law, championed by the ruling Popular Party (PP) and fiercely opposed by rights groups and left-wing opposition, will be passed on Thursday, in what has been labelled "a bad day for democracy" according to Greenpeace, whose members staged a protest outside the Spanish parliament. Dressed in green t-shirts and wearing green gags, members of the environmental organization protested outside of Spain's lower parliament on Thursday morning against the passing of the country’s tough new Citizen Security Law, dubbed the Ley Mordaza, or Gagging Law by critics. - Quote :
- RT “@GreenpeaceCyL: No a las leyes mordaza #26MStopMordazas @greenpeace_esp @Nosomosdelito pic.twitter.com/kUNMp5dm9t”
— DRY Madrid (@DRYmadrid) March 26, 2015 Along with the Citizen Security Law, the Spanish government is on Thursday set to approve reforms to the country’s penal code and a new anti-jihadist law, despite criticism from the United Nations and the Council of Europe. The trio of new regulations will criminalize protests, with fines of up to €600,000 for unauthorized protests outside buildings "which provide basic services to the community", sparking accusations of the government preventing free speech.
http://www.thelocal.es/20150326/protests-as-spains-gagging-law-comes-into-force |
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