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Spain Sentences Another Twitter User

The Spanish High Court has once again handed down a sentence against a Twitter user for the crime of "humiliating victims of terrorism." The Twitter user, Cassandra Vera, had made a series of jokes about the 1973...

by Rights International Spain

The Spanish High Court has once again handed down a sentence against a Twitter user for the crime of "humiliating victims of terrorism." The Twitter user, Cassandra Vera, had made a series of jokes about the 1973 assassination of Carrero Blanco, president during the last years of the Franco dictatorship, who was killed by four members of ETA. This sentence differs from another one passed down a few days earlier by a different section of the same court, in which a Twitter user was absolved for similar jokes about the same terrorist attack.

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