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		</div><p>More than 50 people were arrested and dozens injured during a second night of violent protests in several Spanish cities.</p>
<p>The demonstrations were sparked by the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasel who had insulted the monarchy and praised terrorism.</p>
<p>The protests began peacefully late on Wednesday in dozens of Spanish provincial capitals and other towns in the northeastern Catalonia region.</p>
<p>But as the evening wore on they turned violent, with rioting, impromptu barricades made from bins and fires, and damage to shops.</p>
<p>In Madrid, Barcelona and smaller cities, anti-riot police fired rubber or foam bullets at baton-charged protesters, who threw objects at officers and set bins alight. Some used overturned motorbikes to block streets.</p>
<p>In the Spanish capital alone, police arrested 19 people, including six youngsters.</p>
<p>Emergency services assisted 35 injured anti-riot officers and 20 others, including protesters and people who were passing by and got caught in the melee.</p>
<p>In Barcelona, 29 people were arrested and at least eight were injured and sent to hospitals, the regional emergency service said on Thursday.</p>
<p>At least four protesters were also arrested on Wednesday in the southern city of Granada.</p>
<p>Some of the most serious riots on Wednesday night took place near the Lleida prison, where Hasel was taken on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Police arrested him at a university building where he had barricaded himself in 24 hours earlier to draw attention to his arrest.</p>
<p>The rapper and his supporters say that Hasel’s nine-month sentence for writing a critical song about former King Juan Carlos I and dozens of tweets that judges said glorified some of Spain’s extinct terrorist groups violates free speech rights.</p>
<p>Before that case, the rapper had been given a suspended two-year sentence and faced other charges for assault, praising armed extremist groups, breaking into private premises and insulting the monarchy.</p>
<p>His legal situation has drawn considerable public attention because it comes on the back of a string of other artists and social media personalities having been put on trial for violating Spain’s 2015 Public Security Law, which was enacted by a previous conservative-led government and criticised by human rights organisations.</p>
<p>Spain’s left-wing coalition government wants to change the country’s criminal code to eliminate prison terms for offences involving freedom of speech, especially when it comes in the form of artistic expression.</p>
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