If someone could do this for me I would be eternally grateful. T he arrest of Pablo Hasél this month, a Spanish rapper – like me – who’s accused of glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy in his lyrics, didn’t wonder me. In his lyrics and also on Twitter, Hasel has made references to banned guerrilla groups, such as Basque separatist group ETA and Marxist group GRAPO. • This article was amended on 1 March 2021. I do not think too much about my own future. //]]>, Sorry, we have to make sure you're a human before we can show you this page. 2021 La Tortura Placentera de la Luna. Thousands March in Barcelona to Demand Release of Rapper Who 'Glorified' Terrorism. The cases we have seen in Spain – Hasél’s case, my own and the 18 others facing jail – are the kinds you see in Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia or China. Rap also has a history of talking about people who fight for what they believe in, including those who use arms. [CDATA[ And that’s really sad. It seemed like a joke – almost four years in jail for a song. Spain was under a dictatorship four decades ago. Pablo Hasél indicated this morning that he has no intention of handing himself in, tweeting “Tendrán que venir a secuestrarme” (“they will have to kidnap me.”) Background Pablo Hasél was convicted to nine months' imprisonment and six years' disqualification from employment in the public sector for the offence of glorifying terrorism. Hasél was convicted of "glorifying terrorism" in his lyrics and tweets; he now begins a nine-month prison sentence. Hasél has the same right to do what he does as Quentin Tarantino does to show violence in his films, or Nabokov did to write about a man infatuated with a child. You should never use jail to silence an artist. They are giving me money to do exactly what the Spanish government wants to stop me from doing. Your support powers our independent journalism, Available for everyone, funded by readers. Music is not a political pamphlet or an article in a newspaper – it is fiction; it’s art. I don’t want to label myself and my views but I am on the left wing: I am in favour of human rights and against the tyranny of economic power. But that’s not the point: demonstrations are a way to make change; social movements, solidarity and organisation can bring about progress. The arrest of Pablo Hasél this month, a Spanish rapper who has been convicted of glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy in his lyrics, didn’t surprise me. Like Pablo Hasél, Spain wants me jailed for rap lyrics – but artists must not self-censor V a l t ò n y c The rapper’s arrest shows Spain has a problem with freedom of ideology. The rapper has been convicted more than once due to his lyrics’ implications of the support of terrorism in Spain. This statement was originally published on pen-international.org on 22 February 2021. Protests became violent in Barcelona on Feb. 20 after rapper Pablo Hasél was jailed for tweets glorifying terrorism and mocking royals. That is what we have always seen, throughout history. But people shouldn’t be scared to write songs that stand up to power, Rapper Valtònyc fled Spain in 2018 to avoid jail time for slander, lèse-majesté and glorifying terrorism in his lyrics, Mon 1 Mar 2021 10.30 GMT If they say something you don’t like, then you can go and protest outside their gigs, you can criticise them and you can go and collect signatures against them. The day they came to take me to prison, I fled to Belgium and have been here ever since, despite the best efforts of Spain to have me extradited. You can oppose them in many ways. Another 2,000 people called for Hasel's release in his home town of Segrià, according to Catalan media. // Best Primary Schools In Peterborough 2019, Ava Kingdom Netflix, Dancehall Moves Names, Malaysia Pharmaceutical Stock, Tom And Jerry Chase Tier List, Life Sentence Austria, Shipworm In Tagalog, Best Vintage Dive Watches,