PROTESTS against Government imposed
austerity cuts have been strongest in Spain, where the occupy movement began
with the with the youth-led movement calling itself the 'indignanties' which
occupied Madrid's main square in 2011, before Occupy Wall Street got off the
ground.
From Wednesday the 1st, July,
such demonstrations will be illegal and
demonstrators could individually face fines of up to 600,000 euros, or about
£500,000. Human rights organisations
have described this new gagging law as an anti-democratic response to the
social discontent resulting from the financial crisis and the record
unemployment.
The new law bans any kind of amateur video
footage that has increasingly been used to expose police tactics and which
showed police beating protesters in the Basque country last month.
Judith Sunderland, a senior researcher for
Human Rights Watch, has said the new law represents 'a direct threat to the
rights to meet peacefully and freedom of speech in Spain.'
A campaign against the new gagging law
called 'No somos Delitos' (We are not a
Crime) is now up and running.
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