LIVE: Catalan students demonstrate against arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel

Ruptly is live from Barcelona on Friday, February 19, as student protests against the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel continue. Pablo Hasel was arrested on Tuesday morning at Lleida University’s rectorate building. Hasel, alongside a group of supporters, had barricaded themselves inside the building in protest against his sentence. Protests supporting the rapper have been taking place across the country since, resulting in riots and clashes with police. According to a court ruling, Pablo Hasel faces a nine-month jail term for publishing ‘tweets with videos that incited violence,’ as well as messages that the magistrates consider to have ’exalted terrorism and humiliated the Crown and other state institutions, such as the Armed Forces and the police forces.’ #PabloHasel #BarcelonaProtests #Catalonia #Spain