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Barcelona riots: Dozens arrested after demonstrations against jailing of rapper Pablo Hasel | Spain

Telegraph, 18 Feb 2021
More than 40 people were arrested and dozens injured during the second night of unauthorised demonstrations across Spain over the jailing of a rapper.

Radical Left-wing rapper and activist Pablo Hasel was seized by police on Tuesday morning from a university building in Lleida for criminally offensive song lyrics and Twitter posts.

A group of supporters had barricaded themselves inside the building after the 32-year-old ignored an order to enter prison.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/18/spain-arrests-40-riots-spread-across-country-jailed-rapper-free/

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