"I was very surprised by the integrity, the determination of Pablo HasélI insisted that he tell me how I could help him personally, what shortcomings he had in prison, but his concern was only for the collective, for the erosion of freedoms. According to him, not only by the right but also by the left, which is complicit in the gag law"Because he didn't repeal it as he had promised. He was more concerned about civil liberties than his personal freedom," explains Dominic Keown, a Cambridge professor and life president of the Anglo-Catalan Society. Catalanists, made up mainly of academics involved in promoting Catalan in the university setting. He was accompanied by Henry Ettinghausen, also from the Anglo-Catalan Society, and Toni Strubell, from the ANC. Transition. The court found the content of 64 tweets and the video of the song to be criminal. Juan Carlos the Fool that Hasél had posted on YouTube. "I was struck by his altruism and reminded me of Oscar Wilde," explains Keown. The Irish poet was imprisoned for being homosexual, and his letters also express great concern for others.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Spain's High Court opposes the request of the Catalan Academy of Music to grant a pardon to Pablo Hasél. The public ministry argues that Hasél has been convicted "for multiple criminal acts" and stresses that in some cases, "such as the crime of glorification of terrorism, there is recidivism". To justify its position - which is mandatory, but not binding, although in general it marks the decision that the council of ministers usually takes when it grants the measure of grace - the Prosecutor's Office also relies on a report of conduct of the Ponent prison, where Hasél is imprisoned. The text explains that since the rapper entered prison no disciplinary proceedings have been opened against him, and "has always shown a correct attitude and adaptation to the rules". Given his good behaviour, the penitentiary proposed him to start an individual treatment program (PIT), but Hasél opposed it, which the prosecution also used to argue against the pardon.

A Barcelona court is investigating two mossos d'esquadra for the 19-year-old girl who lost an eye three months ago, on the first night of protests against the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél. They are the shotgunners who fired foam bullets on 16 February at around half past eight in the evening at the intersection of Carrer Bosch and Via Augusta. Judge Joaquín Aguirre, head of Barcelona's investigating court number 1, has admitted the complaint filed by the victim and has summoned the girl, a witness and the two riot police officers to testify on 14 June as investigated parties.

"Enough is enough, let's focus on recovery". It is the slogan that more than 300 business entities have chosen this Thursday to repeat in chorus their rejection of the riots of recent weeks. In a joint event held at the Estació del Nord, employers, unions and representatives of different sectors of the Catalan economy have read a manifesto to make an even more explicit condemnation of the looting and violence that occurred during the protests against the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasel.

The Barcelona police court has ordered provisional detention without bail for eight of those arrested in Saturday's riots in Barcelona. They are part of the group that is linked to the anarchist movement and the riots in the Catalan capital that left the image of a van of the Guardia Urbana burning, according to the General Commissariat of Information of the Mossos d'Esquadra, dedicated to the fight against terrorism. They are being investigated for the crimes of belonging to a criminal group, attempted murder - due to burning the van whilst a police agent was inside of it -, attack on law enforcement officers, demonstration or unlawful assembly, public disorder and damage. The detainees appeared Tuesday before the court of instruction number 17 of Barcelona and only answered the questions of their defense.

The Department of the Interior admits for the first time that "everything indicates" that a foam bullet caused a 19-year-old girl to lose an eye in the first protest in Barcelona for the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél. This is the thesis that Irídia had defended, but until now the official version had been limited to saying that the cause was being investigated. Catalan Minister for Home Affairs Miquel Sàmper has explained this Monday that the report is "practically closed" with the medical report pending. According to the police report, when the girl was hit in the eye, "projectiles were being fired" by the Catalan police, known as the Mossos d'Esquadra. In an interview on Radio 4 and La 2, Sàmper has advanced that if the thesis of the foam bullet is confirmed, the protocol of the Generalitat will be activated to compensate the girl.

That the riots following the demonstrations and protests of these days - whose trigger was the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél but which include a wide range of demands - were taking a worrying turn was already perceived with the assault on the police station in Vic, on the 16th of February. But seeds of higher levels of aggressiveness were already visible. Ten days earlier an incendiary device had been thrown at the Matadepera local police headquarters and the Vic train station was seriously vandalised. And still on October 31st a demonstration in Barcelona against the anti-covid restrictions - linked by the Mossos to extreme right-wing groups - ended with 14 people arrested, 23 policemen injured and several lootings.

It is convenient to see El año del descubrimiento now that the month of February marked by street protests is coming to an end. The documentary directed by Luis López Carrasco shows a blind spot in the modern history of Spain, an episode erased from the most recent historical memory. In the year 1992 -while in the State everything was revolving around the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the Expo in Seville-, the industrial reconversion -a requirement to be part of the European Union- closed factories one after the other, and in Cartagena the riots for the closure of the public company of naval constructions Bazán ended with the Murcian Parliament in flames due to the throwing of Molotov cocktails. It is worth seeing El año del descubrimiento to think about current issues now that unrest is often on the streets of Barcelona, Vilanova i la Geltrú and Vic, but also in the streets of Linares and Jaén.

The truce was short-lived. The resumption of the mobilizations against the imprisonment of the rapper Pablo Hasél -there have already been twelve days of protest- has also made the riots return to the streets of Barcelona. The demonstration called in the Plaça Universitat in Barcelona under the slogan Sense futur no tenim res a perdre ("Without future we have nothing to lose") has been the most crowded so far, with about 4.4,000 people according to the City Police (Guardia Urbana), in a call that added several demands: freedom of expression -and freedom for the rapper Pablo Hasél-, the right to housing, the halting of evictions, the regulation of rents, the amnesty of political prisoners and the repeal of the labor reform and the so-called gag law. A welter of different slogans because there were also different entities that supported the demonstration. Although it has been called spontaneously and has been spreading through social networks, organizations such as the Sindicat de Llogateres, the CDR, Arran, the SEPC or parties like Podemos and the CUP have encouraged the population to attend.

The protests and riots following the demonstrations for the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél resumed last night in Barcelona after a few days of truce. The Catalan Police (Mossos d'Esquadra) arrested fourteen people and some protesters returned to vandalism and violence, which have caused the reaction of the acting president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès; the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the The protests and riots following the demonstrations for the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél resumed last night in Barcelona after a few days of truce. The Catalan police (Mossos d'Esquadra) arrested fourteen people and some protesters returned to vandalism and violence, which have caused the reaction of the acting president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the Minister of Home Affairs, Miquel Sàmper, among others. They condemned, above all, the burning of a van of the City Police (Guardia Urbana) in the Rambla with an agent inside, and the looting of different shops and banks in the city center. In the same way, the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, said that "the acts of vandalism and violence that Barcelona is suffering these days are unacceptable", and supported the different security forces.

Hundreds of young people have taken to the streets day after day since the arrest of the rapper Pablo Hasél and, disassociating themselves from the vandalism acts for pure entertainment, most of the demonstrators with whom ARA has spoken agree in feeling undervalued and little listened to by the older generations and frightened by a future of work and housing that is not at all hopeful. "We are fed up, very tired. The imprisonment of Hasél has been the straw that broke the camel's back", sums up Eudald Rovira (18), a history student.

Last Saturday in Barcelona the police kettled a group of demonstrators in Gràcia neighbourhood and then charged at them. Subsequently the police considered this action a "tactical mistake". The fear that the people who were there in the middle were not so strategic. Shouldn't to have left the house. The . The fear the people in the middle felt was not so strategic. Shouldn't have left the house. Catalan minister of Home Affairs maintained that "there was a minimal use of force". In the videos that circulated online force seemed remarkable, but don't mind me, I'm weak. A girl has had her eye gouged out. It is collateral damage although in reality it is frontal and avoidable. It is container that suffer and are quantified and magnified, fully aware that most protesters never burn anything. Not for lack of motives. Out of strategic fear. And out of astounding ignorance, some shopkeepers speak of "the Night of Broken Glass", when in reality the only thing that happened was that a few people broke windows at night. You might despair at the first paragraph. But you hang in there. As you always do. As we are doing. Even if resilience is admirable on some days and a little scary on others

Surrounded by big brands like Pull&Bear, Zara, Vodafone or Orange, there are still family businesses that survive in Gran de Gràcia street. One of them is the almost century-old shop Vall, which sells bags, suitcases, and accessories. It was founded in 1923 by Esther Vall's great-grandparents, in premises at number 165, which started out as a basket and furniture shop. Over the years, the business has evolved towards accessories and they have opened a shop in Escorial street and, just two months ago, another one at number 108, on the corner with Ros de Olano. Esther, along with her sister, are the fourth generation of the family that runs this business in the heart of Gràcia. They have been "desperate" for a week: "The first day of the riots they painted the shop with acid and on Saturday they broke our windows. In short: everything is terrible", she explains to the ARA. Although the big headlines of the riots have been taken by the stores of the looted multinationals, Esther's case gives voice to small businesses that have also been affected by the riots of these days against the imprisonment of the rapper Pablo Hasél.

PEN Català, from its committee of persecuted writers, has organized an eight-hour marathon in defense of freedom of expression and for the release of Pablo Hasél. The organization has called on the entire literary community to participate in the event, which will be held on March 5 from 9 o'clock and can be followed on the YouTube channel of PEN Català. At the moment there are about 60 people and entities that have signed the statement, which is open to more adhesions. It is also made with the collaboration of the entities that have mobilized in favor of Hasél's freedom, such as the Acadèmia Catalana de la Música, the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana, the Associació de Publicacions Periòdiques en Català, Editors.cat, the Gremi de Llibreters de Catalunya, Llegir en Català and Òmnium.

"The images are hard and we do not like them, it could have been done better. But it was the worst night of looting and riots". These are the words of Pere Ferrer, general director of the Catalan police - known as the Mossos d'Esquadra - on the police operation that on Saturday, the fifth night of riots in the protests over Pablo Hasél, ended up kettling a group of demonstrators in Carrer Gran de Gràcia in Barcelona, an action that has already generated criticism from Irídia, an organisation which defends of human rights. Ferrer said that they are now analysing the operation, which "left room for improvement", but has claimed that the protesters had "a way out at all times", although the images show simultaneous charges from one end and the other of the demonstration and protestors not knowing where to flee.

A thousand people participated yesterday in the sixth night of protests against the arrest of Pablo Hasél, which, unlike the previous night, was much less tense and saw fewer disturbances. As curfew started, most demonstrators retreated. In the atmosphere there was a feeling that the punishment of the rapper was "the straw that broke the camel's back" of the frustration of a generation marked by unemployment, precariousness and lack of prospects. Still hungover from the destruction on Passeig de Gràcia, the protestors marched quite calmly through the stretch from Sants to the centre, although once again police charged and protestors threw objects. Yesterday at least 8 arrests were made.

A "positive, frank and sincere" meeting was held this Sunday between the Minister of the Home Affairs - Miquel Sàmper -, the commanders of the Mossos, and the nine Mossos unions, who had requested the encounter in order to demonstrate the extent to which the officers feel abandoned by the political team led by Miquel Sàmper.

The hard police charges, the looting of shops and the burned containers has spread like a stain through the center of Barcelona again this Saturday in the fifth day of protests, the most multitudinous with more than 6,000 demonstrators, according to municipal sources. There were also protests in Tarragona, Lleida, Girona, Mataró and Sabadell. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested 34 people in total for acts related to public disorder and acts of looting, 31 of them in Barcelona.

"Yesterday Barcelona had its own Night of Broken Glass. Catalan shopkeepers, hoteliers and businessmen have expressed their condemnation of the looting that took place yesterday in the centre of Barcelona after the fifth night of demonstrations against the imprisonment of the rapper Pablo Hasél. 

The Department of Home Affairs has agreed to meet tomorrow, Sunday, with the unions of the Mossos d'Esquadra, after they have warned in a statement of the "great tension" that exists within the force as a result of the critical reception for their actions in the protests over the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél, in which since Tuesday 63 people have been arrested throughout Catalonia, the last four yesterday in Barcelona and Girona.