Spain banned speech critical of the government several years ago, and several people have been jailed already. At least one person has been jailed over a tweet.
Europe isn’t one big whole, parts of it are already obviously worse than others.
Europe isn’t one big whole, parts of it are already obviously worse than others.
When Pedro Sánchez (current Spanish Prime Minister) PhD thesis was discovered to be an alleged forgery or when allegedly used an official plane for personal matters there was plenty of content criticizing h directly.
Could you please provide some reference? I seriously doubt that what you said is correct.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/Spain-Counter...
There's nobody in jail for writing anything.
The report is based on facts, but it goes overboard with the conclusions.
Edit: the BS comment is by oarsinsync, so it should be GGP, sorry if that led to confusionl.
That said, satire against the police force lands you in court:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/07/satirical-arti...
And tweeting can get you a suspended sentence (which got overturned on appeal, but didn't prevent the original conviction):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/spanish-studen...
I did overstate things, but "total BS" doesn't seem fair either.
Please understand that joining a few imprecisions, innocuous in isolation, the result is totally incorrect.
'Incorrect' would have been better than 'BS' indeed, sorry. The reason for verbal escalation is we have to see this kind of "imprecision" very often and it's not funny anymore.
Also in the other article correctly mention that the "rapper" was accused of death threats and asking terrorists to attack people. The guy is at large, thanks to certain terrorists haven country that happens to host EU institutions.