More than one hundred social groups have called for rallies for this Sunday in more than twenty cities so that citizens can demand a reform of the Citizen Security Lawknown as gag lawwhich is not “lukewarm and incomplete”, but rather guarantees the free exercise of fundamental rights.
The concentrations are convened just before next Tuesday the parliamentary paper in charge of modifying the Citizen Security Law resumes its work with the debate of the most controversial changes, such as hot returns or the use of riot gear.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Madrid. “They call it democracy and it is not, a dictatorship is what it is,” or “freedom of expression and demonstration” are some of the slogans chanted by the demonstrators, who are heading to Puerta del Sol from Atocha, where the protest has begun.
More than one hundred social groups have called for rallies for this Sunday in more than twenty cities, two days before next Tuesday the parliamentary paper in charge of amending the Citizen Security Law resumes its work with the debate on the most controversial changes , such as hot returns or the use of riot gear.
The citizen platform No Somos Delito, together with groups, organizations and social movements, demands with these mobilizations that the reform of the gag law is not “a makeup of the current law”.
Demonstrations are planned in more than twenty territoriesincluding Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Murcia, Pamplona, Granada, Vitoria, Pontevedra, Toledo, Guadalajara, Santiago, Castellón, Logroño, A Coruña, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Málaga, Oviedo, Terrassa, Huelva, Cádiz, Mérida and León .
Speaking to journalists, the representative of International Amnesty Carlos Escaño has recalled that the majority of Congress promised at the time “to reverse the setback in rights and freedoms” that the law caused.
However, what is now being debated in the House is nothing more than “small changes” and “insufficient”, Therefore, the conveners of 130 demonstrations in 25 Spanish cities want to remind the parliamentary groups that “they are not aligning themselves with international human rights standards,” Escaño stressed.
Meanwhile, Javier García Raboso, from greenpeacehas insisted on the need to repeal a law that “should never have seen the light” and get a new norm that “really guarantees the rights and freedoms of a mature democracy”.
“We advocate complete repeal, because the current reform proposal is extremely warm.”