Pablo Hasél Explained

Pablo Hasél
Birth Name:Pablo Rivadulla Duró
Birth Date:9 August 1988
Birth Place:Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Years Active:2005–present
Criminal Penalty:2 years, 6 months in prison
Criminal Status:Currently in prison

Pablo Rivadulla Duró (born 9 August 1988),[1] known artistically as Pablo Hasél, is a Catalan[2] [3] [4] rapper, writer, poet, and political activist. His songs and actions, often controversial and in support of far-left politics, have led to a number of criminal charges and convictions in his country.[5] [6] In June 2020 he was sentenced to six months in prison for pushing and spraying washing-up liquid at a TV3 journalist and to two and a half years for kicking and threatening a witness in the trial of a policeman. He was imprisoned on 16 February 2021 on a nine-month sentence for recidivism in insulting the Spanish monarchy, insulting the Spanish army and police forces, and praising terrorism[7] and banned groups.[8] This has been labeled an attack on free speech by certain groups both in Spain and overseas, including Amnesty International, and led to numerous protests and riots.[9]

Name

Hasél's official name is Pablo Rivadulla Duró (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /ˈpaβlo riβaˈðuʎa ðuˈɾo/).[10] However, some newspapers render his first name as Pau (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /paw/), the equivalent Catalan language to the Spanish language Pablo (in English, Paul), and some include the conjunction "i" between his surnames as sometimes is the custom in Catalan, yielding Pau Rivadulla i Duró. He initially used the pseudonym Hasél, in reference to a revolutionary character in an Arabic short story, before later adopting Pablo Hasél as his artistic name.[11]

Biography

Hasél was born in Lleida, Catalonia on 9 August 1988 to Ignacio Rivadulla and Paloma Duró.[12] Hasél's father was a businessman and the president of the local football club Unió Esportiva Lleida[13] [14] and his mother came from an upper-class family of lawyers. Hasél's paternal grandfather was, Andrés Rivadulla Buira, a lieutenant in Franco's army, known for fighting the Maquis (anti-Franco resistance guerrillas that also collaborated in exile with the French resistance) in the invasion of Val d'Aran.[15]

Music

Hasél began his musical career in 2006 as a rapper. His lyrics concentrated on social and anti-capitalist criticism.[8]

Legal troubles

In October 2011, Hasél was arrested and bailed for a song titled Democracia, su puta madre in which he praised Manuel Pérez Martínez "Camarada Arenas", the former secretary general of the PCE(r), who was sentenced to 17 years in prison for belonging to the terrorist group GRAPO.[16] In April 2014, Hasél was given a two-year prison sentence for the lyrics of ten songs in praise of GRAPO, ETA, Al-Qaeda[5] [17] [18] [19] the Red Army Faction and Terra Lliure, and threats against leading politicians like José Bono or Patxi Lopez.[20] [21]

The Audiencia Nacional court suspended his entry into prison for three years in September 2019, on condition that he not reoffend, since the sentence was less than two years. Hasél violated this condition by continuing to sing and tweet.[22] Hasél has denied that he supports Al-Qaeda or that it was listed among the groups he was charged with supporting.[23]

In May 2014, Hasél was arrested for being part of a group of around fifteen people that attacked a stall belonging to the Lleida Identitària, linked to the far-right Platform for Catalonia (PxC) party.[24] [25]

In November 2014, Hasél released a song called "Menti-ros" which included several depictions of shooting, stabbing or bombing the mayor of Lleida, Àngel Ros. He was charged with making threats. In February 2017 he was convicted of disrespecting authority, after the court concluded that the song did not meet the legal definition of a threat. He was fined €530.[26]

In June 2016, Hasél pushed, insulted and sprayed washing-up liquid at a TV3 journalist. He received six months in prison and a fine of €12,150 in June 2020.[27] A few days after the court ruling and as a result of it, a group of unknown individuals attacked the headquarters of TV3 in Lleida.[28] In the same month, he received a 2-year sentence and €2,500 fine for assault and obstruction of justice, namely for kicking and threatening a witness in the October 2017 trial of a policeman eventually acquitted of assaulting a minor, accusing him of providing false testimony.[29] This sentence was confirmed in 2021, days after his imprisonment.[30]

In a February 2018 interview, Hasél defended his support of the Catalan Republic, and developed his position on free speech: "I will not be a hypocrite, I do not defend freedom of expression in the abstract. I do not defend the freedom of expression of a pedophile or a Nazi to say that homosexuals should be killed. Precisely, I fight against that. [...] I stand for freedom of expression to fight for democratic rights."[31] Later on, in another interview, in March 2018 Hasél said he was unable to find work due to his criminal convictions that disqualified him from the public sector for ten years, and that his last work had been grape picking in France.[11]

In March 2018, Hasél was convicted by Spanish Special Court Audiencia Nacional in Madrid to a two-year prison sentence and a fine of €24,300 for insulting and slandering the Crown and using the King's image (for which he was ordered to pay a fine), for insulting and slandering State institutions (for which he was also ordered to pay a fine); and for the offence of glorification of terrorism, being aggravated because it was a repeat offence, for which he was sentenced to seven months imprisonment in one song lyrics and in 64 tweets.[32] The song was titled Juan Carlos el Bobón, which roughly translates as Juan Carlos the Clown, a wordplay on the former king's actual name, Juan Carlos de Borbón. In the song, Hasél recounts the former king's numerous scandals in a chronological order.[33] Many of his 64 incriminated tweets were actually about police violence and a lack of accountability in that area. In one of those tweets used in the court case Hasél wrote that Joseba Arregi Izagirre, a 1981 accused ETA member, was tortured to death in a Madrid prison; pointing out this fact was part of the evidence used to claim he supported terrorism.[34] An appeals judge later reduced his jail term to nine months and one day because his social media remarks did "not pose a real risk" to anyone.[35] This decision was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court of Spain in May 2020; both rulings were hugely controversial rulings.[36]

One of the judges of the Spanish Special Court Audiencia Nacional in Madrid who sentenced Hasél was Nicolás Poveda Peña, who was an active member of the fascist Falange, the political movement of dictator Franco, and ran for election on the lists of the Falange Party - Poveda was appointed judge by the fourth turn, that is, without going through the process of competing for the position.[37] [38] [39] [40] [41]

On 28 January 2021, Hasél was ordered to voluntarily enter prison within ten days to serve the nine-month and one day sentence. The order was made public by the artist himself. On the same day the President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, Róbert Ragnar Spanó, issued a warning to Spain that the Strasbourg doctrine on the rights in cases of criticism of ″public personas″ is ″clear″, quoting from two other Spanish cases where the ECHR ruled that Spanish sentences had been disproportionately harsh. Spanó explained that "public office holders, ministers, kings – because of the public nature of their functions – must accept wider ranges of criticism".[42]

On 6 February a thousand people gathered in the Plaza Jacinto Benavente in Madrid in solidarity with Hasél and in defence of freedom of expression and conscience with dozens of riot police vans and police armed with rifles in front of the gathering.[43] On 12 February 2021, the day of his deadline to go to prison, Hasél released the song, Ni Felipe VI, ironically dedicating it to "the misnamed progressive [PSOE-Podemos] government which has perpetuated repression. Feeling nervous as the streets fill up for freedom of expression, they have promised to do something, trying to stop the mobilisation, but only with this will we win this struggle". The song begins with an intervention by the Spanish king Felipe VI in which he states that "without freedom of expression and information there is no democracy".[44] Within the first month the song had 1.5 million views on Youtube.[45]

Hasél publicly refused this prison order,[46] and was eventually arrested on 16 February. Hasel, alongside a group of over 50 students, had barricaded himself inside University of Lleida's rectorate building in protest against his sentence.[47] Hasél's freedom was supported by Amnesty International and a letter signed by 300 Spanish artists including Pedro Almodóvar and Javier Bardem,[48] as well as by President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former Bolivian President Evo Morales and Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro.[49] [50] Hasél's imprisonment led to nights of protests involving thousands of people in cities including Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona.[51] Podemos has likened Hasél's case to that of Valtònyc, another Spanish rapper prosecuted by the Spanish judiciary, who fled to Belgium in 2018 after a 3-year prison sentence for writing song lyrics that a court found glorified terrorism and insulted the monarchy. PEN Català published a communiqué – in collaboration with the Catalan Academy of Music, the Association of Catalan Language Writers, the Association of Periodicals in Catalan, Editors.cat, the Fira Literal, Freemuse, the Catalan Publishers' Guild, Llegir en català, Òmnium; in defense of freedom of expression and for the release of Hasél.[52] [53]

On 1 March 2021, the public prosecutor's office asked for another five years and three months in prison for Hasél, for incidents that took place on the night of 25 March 2018 in the attempted assault on the Government subdelegation in Lleida in protest against the arrest of Carles Puigdemont a few hours earlier in Germany. Hasél and 10 defendants had the intention, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, to disrupt the protection operation and "gain access to the building", a symbol of the central government in Lleida. The State Attorney's Office is involved in the case to claim compensation for the material damage, while the Generalitat de Catalunya brought no action against Hasél.[54]

On 22 March 2021 the Council published the Commissioner for Human Rights, (Dunja Mijatović), letter addressed to the Minister of Justice of Spain. It stated that – in addition to the lack of legal clarity – Spanish courts in Madrid had not explained in such cases whether the denounced "glorification of terrorism really entailed the risk of a real, concrete and immediate danger". Only then could anti-terror legislation be used to restrict freedom of expression. With regard to the allegations of lèse-majesté, it stressed that the possibilities for restricting freedom of expression here were very limited, "especially when it comes to politicians, public officials and other public figures". It called for "comprehensive" legislative changes to strengthen freedom of expression in line with the European Convention on Human Rights.[55] [56] [57] And the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) also requested Spain to reform its Law on Citizen Security of 2015 because of its repressive potential.[58] [59] [60]

In November 2023, the European Court of Human Rights declined Pablo Hasél's application against Spain considering his conviction was proportional, based on relevant and strong enough grounds and addressed a pressing social need. The institution also remembered that his committal to prison was because of his consecutive sentences and pointed out he had just been sentenced to a fine for his statements regarding Juan Carlos I .[61]

Protests

See main article: Protests against the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél. In the days and weeks after his arrest, a wave of protests occurred in cities across Catalonia and the rest of Spain. Damages in Barcelona were estimated at €1.5 million.[62] Violence was reported in several cities.[63] [64] [65] [66] Nearly 200 people were detained, 200 injured, a Reuters-journalist and a 19-year-old woman, who lost an eye, were among those when agents from the Mossos d'Esquadra fired foam bullets into the crowd.[67] [68] [69] [70] On 1 March, a group of elderly people chained themselves to the Paeria palace, Lleida's town hall, demanding "an end to the repression of young people" and that agents responsible for wrongful actions be dismissed from the Mossos d'Esquadra.[71] [72]

Discography

Solo

Prozaks (feat. Cíniko)

Magmah (feat. Zyon Revol "Frankie Brown")

Las resakas (feat. Marc Hijo de Sam)

Collaborations

Poetry and books

Hasél has authored the following collections of poems and books, often in collaboration with Spanish poet Aitor Cuervo.

Documentary

Notes and References

  1. News: Vallín . Pedro . Pablo Hasél se niega a entrar en prisión y llama a la movilización si le detienen. Pablo Hasél refuses to go to prison and calls for mobilisation if they detain him. 14 February 2021 . . 13 February 2021 . Spanish. Pablo Rivadulla Duró (Lleida, 1988).
  2. News: Protests one month on from jailing of Catalan rapper Pablo Hasel . 22 March 2021 . . 20 March 2021.
  3. News: Pablo Hasél protests: Violence in Spanish cities over rapper's jailing . 18 February 2021 . . 18 February 2021 . Protests in support of a jailed Catalan rapper have descended into violence, [...].
  4. Web site: Faus . Joan . Pinedo . Emma . Catalonia beefs up security for new protests over jailed rapper . Reuters-Swissinfo . 22 March 2021 . Police officers clash with demonstrators as supporters of Catalan rapper Pablo Hasel protest against his arrest in Madrid, Spain, February 17, 2021 [caption of first image]..
  5. News: Cué . Carlos E. . López-Fonseca . Óscar . After rapper Pablo Hasél gets jail for tweets, Spain plans to end prison terms for crimes involving freedom of speech . 14 February 2021 . El País . 10 February 2021. In March 2015, he received another two-year prison sentence for writing and sharing songs that praised attacks carried out by terrorist groups such as the now-defunct Basque group ETA and Al-Qaeda, although he never served the jail term..
  6. News: Pinedo . Emma . Spain to reform free speech laws after rapper ordered jailed . 14 February 2021 . Reuters . 9 February 2021.
  7. News: A Spanish rapper was arrested for tweets praising terrorists and mocking royals.. The Washington Post. 23 February 2021.
  8. News: Albalat . J. G. . ¿Cuáles son los motivos de la condena a Pablo Hasel y cuáles son los cargos contra él?. What are the charges against Pablo Hasél?. 20 February 2021 . Onda Cero . 18 February 2021 . Spanish.
  9. Web site: García. Alfonso L. Congostrina, Jesús. 20 February 2021. Los disturbios en Barcelona derivan en saqueos de tiendas del centro y llegan al Palau de la Música. 21 February 2021. EL PAÍS. es.
  10. Web site: . La Audiencia Nacional confirma que hubo delito de enaltecimiento del terrorismo por parte del rapero Pablo Hasel pero rebaja la pena . 27 February 2021 . es . 14 September 2018.
  11. News: Cruz . Nando . Pablo Hasél: "Yo no estoy en ningun grupo armado". Hasél: "I'm not in any armed group". 14 February 2021 . . 9 March 2018 . Spanish.
  12. News: Ricou . Javier . Pablo Hasél, un agitador de familia bien. Pablo Hasél, an agitator from a well-off family . 21 February 2021 . . 2021–02–21 . es.
  13. News: El origen futbolístico de Pablo Hasél. The footballing origin of Pablo Hasél. 20 February 2021 . . 19 February 2021 . Spanish.
  14. Web site: Hasel, el hijo de papá proterrorista que ha tomado el rectorado de Lérida. 29 April 2019. Planas. Pablo. 7 June 2016. Libertad Digital. es.
  15. Web site: María. Palmero. Pablo Hasél, al descubierto: su abuelo franquista, su misteriosa novia y más. Vozpópuli. 16 February 2021. 27 February 2021. es.
  16. News: En libertad el rapero Pablo Hasél tras ser imputado por ensalzar al 'camarada Arenas' de los GRAPO. Rapper Pablo Hasél freed after being indicted for praising GRAPO's 'Camarada Arenas'. 14 February 2021 . . 5 October 2011 . Spanish.
  17. News: ¿Qué dijo Pablo Hasél? Tuits, una canción y enaltecimiento terrorista. What did Pablo Hasél say? Tweets, a song and praising terrorism. 16 February 2021 . El Periódico de Catalunya . 16 February 2021 . Spanish . ¿La razón? Enaltecer en sus diatribas en redes sociales y en su música el terrorismo de ETA, los Grapo, Terra Lliure o Al Qaeda. [The reason? Praising in his social media diatribes and in his music the terrorism of ETA, GRAPO. Terra Lliure or Al Qaeda].
  18. News: Hasél vuelve a pedir a la Audiencia Nacional que suspenda su condena . 16 February 2021 . . 9 February 2021 . Spanish . Hasél fue condenado en 2014 a dos años de cárcel por enaltecer en sus canciones el terrorismo de ETA, los Grapo, Terra Lliure o Al Qaeda, castigo que la Audiencia sí dejó en suspenso. [Hasél was convicted in 2014 to two years in prison for praising in his songs the terrorism of ETA, GRAPO, Terra Lliure or Al Qaeda, a punishment which the Audiencia left suspended].
  19. News: Juanico Llumà . Núria . Les 10 claus per entendre el cas Pablo Hasél. The 10 keys to understanding the Pablo Hasél case . 16 February 2021 . . 16 February 2021 . Catalan. Hasél té una condemna anterior, del 2014, per enaltir en cançons seves el terrorisme d'ETA, els Grapo, Terra Lliure i Al-Qaida. [Hasél has a previous conviction, from 2014, for praising in his songs the terrorism of ETA, GRAPO, Terra Lliure or Al Qaeda].
  20. News: Dos años de cárcel por cantar "¡Merece que explote el coche de Patxi López!". Two years in prison for singing "Patxi López's car deserves to blow up!". 30 May 2021 . . 1 April 2014 . Spanish.
  21. News: Pérez . Fernando J. . Dos años de cárcel para un rapero por enaltecimiento del terrorismo . Two years in prison for a rapper for praising terrorism . 14 February 2021 . . 1 April 2014 . Spanish. Hasel, de 25 años, subió a la red social YouTube 10 canciones compuestas por él mismo en las que ensalzaba y alababa los atentados terroristas de Grapo, ETA, Al Qaeda, Facción del Ejército Rojo (RAF) y Terra Lliure, e incluso pedía a estas organizaciones que volvieran a atentar. [Hasél, 25, uploaded to the social network YouTube 10 self-composed songs in which he praised terrorist attacks by GRAPO, ETA, Al Qaeda, the Red Army Faction and Terra Lliure, and even asked these organisations to attack again.].
  22. News: La Audiencia Nacional suspende la condena de dos años de cárcel a Pablo Hasel por enaltecer el terrorismo. Audiencia Nacional suspends two-year jail sentence for Pablo Hasél for praising terrorism . 14 February 2021 . . 29 September 2019 . Spanish.
  23. Web site: 2021-02-20. lahaine.org. es. [Video] Jamás he apoyado a Al Qaeda.
  24. News: Detenido Pablo Hasél por atacar en Sant Jordi la parada de Lleida Identitària. Pablo Hasél detained on St George's Day for attacking the Lleida Identitària parade. 14 February 2021 . La Vanguardia . 14 May 2014 . Spanish.
  25. Web site: 17 February 2021. Los disturbios de partidarios de Pablo Hasél incendian el post 14-F. 8 March 2021. www.elconfidencial.com. es.
  26. News: Rapero Hasél, condenado a 530 euros por faltar al respeto al alcalde Lleida. Rapper Hasél, sentenced to 530 euro fine for lack of respect towards the mayor of Lleida . 26 July 2023 . La Vanguardia . 13 February 2017 . Spanish.
  27. News: Nueva condena al rapero Pablo Hasél: seis meses de prisión por agredir a un periodista de TV3. New conviction for rapper Pablo Hasél: six months in prison for attacking a TV3 journalist . 14 February 2021 . La Vanguardia . 5 June 2020 . Spanish.
  28. Web site: Atacan la sede de TV3 en Lleida por una sentencia condenatoria a Pablo Hasél . TV3 headquarters in Lleida attacked for Pablo Hasél's court conviction . 1 March 2021 . 8 June 2020 . La Vanguardia. es.
  29. News: Condenan a Pablo Hasél a dos años y medio de cárcel por agredir al testigo de un juicio. Pablo Hasél sentenced to two and a half years in prison for assaulting the witness of a trial. 16 February 2021 . La Vanguardia . 15 June 2020 . Spanish.
  30. News: Albalat . J. G. . Confirmada otra condena de más de dos años a Hasél por amenazar a un testigo. Another sentence of over two years for Hasél for threatening a witness. 19 February 2021 . El Periódico de Catalunya . 18 February 2021 . Spanish.
  31. https://www.elnacional.cat/ca/politica/pablo-hasel-audiencia-nacional-terrorisme-rei_237702_102.html Hasél: "Els independentistes empresonats s'han enfrontat al règim, com jo"
  32. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-000593_EN.html Rapper Pablo Hasél imprisoned in Spain
  33. News: Torrús . Alejandro . Estos son los 64 tuits y la canción por los que ha sido condenado el rapero Pablo Hasel . These are the 64 tweets and the song which got the rapper Pablo Hasél convicted. 14 February 2021 . . 2 March 2018 . Spanish.
  34. Web site: van der Doelen . Jaap . De staat versus Pablo Hasél: een Spaanse tragedie . Hiphop in Je Smoel (HIJS). 20 February 2021 . 27 March 2021.
  35. Web site: Congostrina. Alfonso L. . Spanish rapper convicted over tweets arrested after ignoring prison deadline . El País . 15 March 2021 . 22 March 2021.
  36. Web site:
  37. https://gara.naiz.eus/idatzia/20070113/art197018.php Del falangista Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas a juez en la Casa de Campo
  38. https://www.publico.es/sociedad/hasel-pide-absolucion-vinculos-jueces-espejel-poveda-guardia-civil-falange.html Hasel pide su absolución por los vínculos de los jueces Espejel y Poveda con Guardia Civil y Falange
  39. https://www.racocatala.cat/forums/fil/236204/jutge-pablo-hasel-va-estar-llistes-electorals-falange-1979 El jutge de Pablo Hasél va estar a les llistes electorals de la Falange
  40. https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20180303/prensa-hoy-03-03-2018-6664291 Altos cargos de la Generalitat dan parte de su sueldo a Puigdemont, dice 'El País'
  41. https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/03/01/why-spanish-courts-censor-art-speech-and-rap-lyrics A fit of intolerance - Why Spanish courts censor art, speech and rap lyrics
  42. https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/catalan-rapper-pablo-hasel-enter-prison_578052_102.html Catalan rapper Pablo Hasél ordered to enter prison within ten days
  43. Web site: Gomez Movellan . Antonio . Reformar el código penal y la concepción autoritaria del orden público . . 9 February 2021 . 27 March 2021.
  44. Web site: Lüdke . Steffen . Kommunist gegen König . Der Spiegel. 19 February 2021 . 27 March 2021.
  45. Pablo Hasel . 12 February 2021 . NI FELIPE VI . Videoclip . es . 27 March 2021 . Youtube.
  46. News: El rapero Pablo Hasel advierte de que no irá de manera voluntaria a prisión este viernes: "Tendrán que venir a secuestrarme". Rapper Pablo Hasél warns that he will not go voluntarily to prison this Friday: "They'll have to come to kidnap me". 14 February 2021 . . 12 February 2021 . Spanish.
  47. Web site: Pablo Hasel: Spanish police arrest rapper. 16 February 2021. Deutsche Welle.
  48. News: Rapper defiant as jail looms, posing quandry for Spain . 14 February 2021 . . 12 February 2021.
  49. News: Lopez [''sic''] Obrador sale en defensa de Hasél: "¡Ya, libérenlo!"]. López Obrador comes out in defence of Hasél: "Free him already!". 23 February 2021 . El Periódico de Catalunya . 22 February 2021 . Spanish.
  50. Web site: 17 February 2021. López Obrador, Evo Morales y Nicolás Maduro muestran su solidaridad con Pablo Hasel. 25 February 2021. NAIZ. es.
  51. News: Pablo Hasél protests: Violence in Spanish cities over rapper's jailing . 19 February 2021 . BBC News . 18 February 2021.
  52. Web site: En col·laboració amb l'Acadèmia catalana de la música. Pen Catalan.
  53. News: 22 February 2021. Spain: Release rapper Pablo Hasél and uphold freedom of expression. Pen International. 24 February 2021. 16 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220216072548/https://pen-international.org/news/spain-release-rapper-and-uphold-freedom-of-expression. dead.
  54. https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2021/03/01/60380769fc6c83de208b458a.html La Fiscalía pide otros 5 años de prisión para Pablo Hasel por los altercados tras la detención de Carles Puigdemont, El Mundo, 1 March 2021
  55. https://elpais.com/espana/2021-03-22/el-consejo-de-europa-pide-a-espana-que-refuerce-la-proteccion-de-la-libertad-de-expresion.html El Consejo de Europa pide a España cambios legales sobre los insultos a la Monarquía y el enaltecimiento del terrorismo
  56. https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-03/spanien-meinungsfreiheit-menschenrecht-strafgesetzgebung-pablo-hasel-dunja-mijatovic?utm Europaratskommissarin ruft Spanien auf, Strafgesetzgebung zu ändern
  57. https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/spanish-authorities-should-amend-the-criminal-code-to-strengthen-existing-safeguards-of-the-right-to-freedom-of-expression Spanish authorities should amend the Criminal Code to strengthen existing safeguards of the right to freedom of expression
  58. https://elpais.com/espana/2021-03-22/la-comision-de-venecia-pide-a-espana-que-reforme-la-ley-mordaza.html La Comisión de Venecia pide a España que reforme la 'ley mordaza'
  59. https://search.coe.int/directorate_of_communications/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680a1dd7f Venice Commission: Spain should reform the citizens' security law
  60. https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/consell-europa-reforma-codi-penal-llibertat-dexpressio El Consell d'Europa renya Espanya per la violació de la llibertat d'expressió i li exigeix reformes legals
  61. News: Estrasburgo rechaza la demanda de Pablo Hasél contra España y considera proporcionada su condena . 9 November 2023 . . 9 November 2023 . Spanish .
  62. Web site: La factura de una semana de disturbios se dispara y ya supera el millón y medio de euros. The bill for a week of unrest shoots up and now exceeds one and half million euros . Luis . Benvenuty . La Vanguardia . 22 February 2021 . 22 February 2021. Spanish.
  63. News: Sánchez . Guillem . Graves disturbios en Catalunya tras la detención de Hasél. Serious unrest in Catalonia after the imprisonment of Hasél. 21 February 2021 . El Periódico de Catalunya . 17 February 2021 . Spanish.
  64. News: Pablo Hasel: Violence in Madrid and Barcelona over rapper's jailing . 21 February 2021 . . 18 February 2021.
  65. News: Valencia vive otra noche de violencia por la detención de Hasel. Valencia witnesses another night of violence after the imprisonment of Hasél. 21 February 2021 . . 19 February 2021 . Spanish.
  66. News: Disturbios en la zona del Casco Viejo de Bilbao tras la manifestación de apoyo a Hasel. Unrest in the Old Town area of Bilbao after the demonstration in support of Hasél. 21 February 2021 . . 21 February 2021 . Spanish.
  67. Web site: Albalat. J. G.. 25 February 2021. Los Mossos presentan el primer informe sobre la joven que perdió un ojo en las protestas por Hasél. 8 March 2021. elperiodico. es.
  68. Web site: Els Mossos han detingut 109 persones en les protestes per Pablo Hasel. 8 March 2021. VilaWeb. ca.
  69. Web site: Carranco. Alfonso L. Congostrina, Ferran Bono, Rebeca. 19 February 2021. Catalonia rocked by third night of protests over jailing of rapper Pablo Hasél. 8 March 2021. EL PAÍS. en.
  70. Web site: Carrera. Gerard Fageda, Marta Rodríguez. 17 February 2021. Woman loses eye after being shot with foam bullets by riot police in Hasél demonstration. 8 March 2021. Ara in English. en.
  71. News: Nearly 400 Arrested And Injured As Protesters Demand Spanish Rapper's Release From Prison. 4 March 2021 . Jacksonville Free Press . 3 March 2021.
  72. News: Un grupo de personas se encadena al patio de la Paeria de Lleida . 4 March 2021 . La Vanguardia . 2 March 2021.
  73. Web site: Hasél: Poeta Proscrito (2021). 8 March 2021. www.filmaffinity.com.