No Joke: Increasingly Repressive Spain Seeks Prison Term for Tweet Joke

‘In a new climate of authoritarianism and fear, artists, students and ordinary citizens in Spain are facing the results of recent laws limiting freedom of expression and public assembly in the country, all under the guise of anti-terror legislation.
A 21-year-old college student in the Spanish university town of Murcia has been accused by a prosecutor from the Spanish National Court of “glorifying terrorism and humiliating victims of terrorism,” according to German news website Deutsche Welle, after she tweeted a “joke about a dictator.” The court is seeking a three-year prison sentence for her remarks.’
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