translated from La Directa https://directa.cat/ The Spanish National Court has condemned the twelve rappers of the group La Insurgencia to two years and a day of jail each, accused of the crimes of ‘supporting terrorism’ in their lyrics, a sentence that automatically gives jail time. The High Court also condemned them to pay fines of 4,800 euros and nine years of absolute disqualification from public jobs.

During the trial, the Prosecutor’s Office argued that the songs of La Insurgencia “advocate a violent method to combat a system that [the accused] consider unfair” “Now it’s time to appeal to the Supreme Court,” said Saúl Zaitsev, one of the condemned members of La Insurgencia. But this will take years and meanwhile 12 people have their lives destroyed because some government members don’t like their lyrics. And of course many other artists will take note and self censor their work.

The case has been judged by the same Court that sentenced to 12 years in prison Mónica C. and Francisco S. for the detonation of a ‘large firework’ in the Basilica of Pilar in Zaragoza, and is seen as part of the judicial processes against the supposed anarchist terrorism that led to the now discredited and abandoned Pandora and Piñata massive police operations. These State funded repression campaigns include ICE, where Nahuel, a 25-year-old vegan youth, was a year and a half in the preventive prison for resisting fascism and today remains awaiting trial. The ridiculous sentence without evidence of Mónica and Francisco was later reduced to four and a half years in prison by the Supreme Court and they were eventually deported to Chile. (see also: Monica and Francisco trial. Day 1 report. State has NO Evidence)



The criminal process against La Insurgencia has been instructed by Judge Carmen Lamela, a notorious puppet of the regime, before whom the youths refused to declare. The twelve brought to trial are between 18 and 27 years old. Carmen Lamela recently signed the order sending 8 Catalan politicians to jail for ‘rebellion’.

Comparing them to jihadists, the prosecutor stated that “the defendants have a religion that is the labour union which says the exploitation of the oppressed deserves an armed struggle

The Prosecutor accused these musicians of supporting the PCE (r) -GRAPO, a small marxist guerrilla group which disbanded nearly 30 years ago.

The rappers alleged during their testimony at the trial that their lyrics were metaphors and thoughts, but the court considered that “when they mention in the lyrics of the songs one or another organization, the accused are aware of its terrorist connotation.” The defendants said that the “highly aggressive” images which appeared in YouTube videos were not theirs, although the court considered that they can not be separated from the activity of glorifying terrorism because rappers “knew about them and they had no intention of withdrawing them”.

” The messages published by the group, in addition to praising the Grapo, also have an anti-system tendency against the Monarchy, the Government or the Police” they said.



“To jail for my songs”: is the video of one of the rappers condemned by the National Court. He is one of the 12 rappers of the La Insurgencia group who have been sentenced to two years and one day in prison for a crime of glorifying terrorism for the lyrics of their songs. Saul Zaitsev and his companions will go to jail if their appeal to the Supreme Court fails, despite the fact that the National Court bases its ruling on an “abstract risk” of new attacks.

Now, after hearing the sentence, he has posted a video on social networks whose title describes his disagreement with the sentence: “To prison for my songs.” In it, Zaitsev appeals to artists, especially those of hip hop and society to denounce their case: “This is a brutal betrayal.” Before the camera he denounces that they can enter the jail “for making art, for making social denunciation with our songs, transmitting rage”. “We have not decided to make protest music, they have pushed us into it,” he explains.

NEW VICTIM Rodrigo Lanza 14 Dec 17.

Rodrigo Lanza has been arrested, and today jailed without bail..

In reality he has been already TRIED AND SENTENCED by the right wing media headlines for ”killing an innocent man for carrying a Spanish flag” in Zaragoza.

The victim was Víctor Laínez, a notorious local nazi and he died by accident after a pub brawl. The media claim as fact that he was killed by Rodrigo for having Spanish flags on his jacket.

The context is that since the Catalan referendum there has been a huge wave of fascist attacks openly promoted by the State and right wing media, for whom Rodrigio Lanza was already a hate figure. Victor Laínez was a nazi, openly proud of the Franco takeover which stole the country and left 750.000 victims, many still unrecovered from mass graves. Rodrigo finally got word out of the prison claiming self defence when Victor attacked with a knife, and denying use of any weapon. (La Directa..15/12/17)

Rodrigo Lanza, had already spent 5 years in prison, victim of a disgusting police vendetta ( see also: Patricia suicides after false conviction) tortured and accused of the famous flowerpot incident in Feb 2006 in Barcelona, of which he was obviously innocent.

A policeman ended up paralysed when the pot hit his head, ‘thrown from a roof’ when the police were breaking up a party in a squat. Rodrigo’s torturers went free but were later fired for torturing other suspects, and Rodrigo appeared in the famous documentary Ciutat Morta *Dead City * which exposed the whole scandal and was finally shown on some Spanish TV (Ciutat Morta- Dead City- watch here + Review (English subs)/ ‎).

OTHER ARTISTS VICTIMIZED INCUDE

The Mallorcan rapper Joseph Miguel Arenas, known as Valtonyc, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison – and a compensation of 3,000 euros to the president of the National Foundation Círculo Balear, Jorge Campos – for the crimes of insults to the Crown, ‘exaltation of terrorism’ and threats in the lyrics of his songs.

In January of this year the Supreme Court sentenced rapper César Strawberry, singer of the group Def Con Dos, to one year in prison for the crime of glorifying terrorism or humiliating the victims, for some tweets that he published in 2013 referring to Carrero Blanco , Ortega Lara and Franco.

from..http://www.publico.es/tremending/2017/02/25/libertad-de-expresion-las-letras-por-las-que-la-justicia-te-puede-llevar-a-la-carcel/ Las letras por las que la Justicia te puede llevar a la cárcel Por Sandra Rodríguez Ramos Soziedad Alkoholika The five members of the musical group Soziedad Alkoholica were accused, together with their representative, of glorifying ETA terrorism in January 2016 by Baltasar Garzón, following the denunciation of the Association of Victims of Terrorism in 2004. In its lyrics of Síndrome del Norte , Ya Güelen, Pigeons and Vultures and Pig Explode, the artists cite phrases such as “exciting going to a bar and taking you out to host the National” or “fascists disguised as pacifists clothed by the police.”

Rapper Pablo Hasel was sentenced in March 2015 to two years in prison for a crime of glorifying terrorism, by uploading songs in his Youtube account that contained anti police, anti monarchy and anti fascist lyrics and ‘glorified terriorism’.

from: http://www.publico.es/tremending/2017/02/25/libertad-de-expresion-las-letras-por-las-que-la-justicia-te-puede-llevar-a-la-carcel/

original en català de La Directa https://directa.cat/



L’ Audiència Nacional condemna a dos anys i un dia de presó als rapers de La Insurgencia