{"id":32097,"date":"2018-03-13T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/13\/spanish-anti-terror-law-has-chilling-effect-on-satire-says-amnesty-international\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T01:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T00:01:24","slug":"spanish-anti-terror-law-has-chilling-effect-on-satire-says-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=32097","title":{"rendered":"Spanish anti-terror law has &#039;chilling effect&#039; on satire, says Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charity urges repeal of article 578, which they say has restricted freedom of expressionAmnesty International has warned that an \u201cexponential increase\u201d in prosecutions under a controversial Spanish anti-terrorism law is having a chilling effect on satire and dissent and is pushing social media users, musicians and journalists towards self-censorship.The charity is calling for the law to be repealed, arguing that recent high-profile cases brought under article 578 of Spain\u2019s criminal code have highlighted the danger the legislation poses to freedom of speech and international human rights law. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/13\/spanish-anti-terror-law-has-chilling-effect-on-satire-says-amnesty-international\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish anti-terror law has &#039;chilling effect&#039; on satire, says Amnesty International<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity urges repeal of article 578, which they say has restricted freedom of expressionAmnesty International has warned that an \u201cexponential increase\u201d in prosecutions under a controversial Spanish anti-terrorism law is having a chilling effect on satire and dissent and is pushing social media users, musicians and journalists towards self-censorship.The charity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}