• Justice: The National Court gives rapper Pablo Hasel 10 days to enter prison to serve his sentence for exalting terrorism

Just the day that more than 200 artists have signed a manifesto to request the release of rapper

Pablo Hasel

, sentenced to prison for exalting terrorism and insults to the Crown, the Government announced this Monday a change in the Penal Code to minimize the crimes against freedom of expression.

Hasel, about to enter jail, has been convicted for some lyrics of his songs about the Grapo, ETA or Terra Lliure, and for insults the monarchy and the State Security Forces, and the aggravating circumstance of recidivism.

Executive sources assure that the classification of crimes related to freedom of expression will be modified so that "only conduct that clearly implies the creation of a risk to public order or the provocation of some type of violent conduct is punished" and so that the penalties are in those cases "dissuasive but not truly exclusive".

The Ministry of Justice will bet on its proposal because those verbal excesses that are committed in the context of artistic, cultural or intellectual manifestations, remain outside the criminal punishment.

The department headed by Juan Carlos Campo understands, the same sources continue, that Criminal Law "is not the most useful tool, nor is it necessary, nor is it certainly the most proportionate to respond to behaviors that, even though it may border on illegality, their punishment criminal law would be a discouragement for freedom of expression. "

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