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Femen continue protests against new Spanish Citizen Security Law
The “gagging law” is still meeting with strong opposition in Spain
Spain’s controversial new Citizen Security Law, referred to by many as the “gagging law”, has now been passed and comes into force on 1st July, but Jorge Fernández Díaz, the Minister of the Interior, will be under 
no illusions that the storm has been ridden and that his legislation is now universally accepted.
no illusions that the storm has been ridden and that his legislation is now universally accepted.
On Thursday he witnessed two protests against the new law, the first of them at the entrance of a hotel where he arrived to attend an official function in Madrid and was confronted by an angry man voicing his disapproval of the Law. Hours later a female member of the Femen women’s rights group staged another protest, this time topless, and had to be wrestled to the ground and away from the scene by police officers at the presentation of a book about Santa Teresa de Jesús, another event attended by Sr Fernández Díaz.
On her torso the well-endowed young lady bore the slogan “Violador de libertades” (violator of freedoms) and on her back were the words “No a la ley mordaza” (no to the gagging law).
Criticism of the new law is being voiced outside Spain as well. On Wednesday the New York Times published an article headlined “Spain’s Ominous Gag Law”, in which reference was made to a hologram of protesting marchers which was projected in front of the parliament building in Madrid. The article voices the opinion that “the law’s main purpose is to help the ruling party maintain its hold on power by discouraging the anti-austerity protests that have snowballed into widespread support for the populist Podemos party”, and concludes as follows:
“Spain’s new gag law disturbingly harkens back to the dark days of the Franco regime. It has no place in a democratic nation”.
Damning criticism indeed, and more likely to achieve any change of heart that the actions by isolated individuals which inconvenienced the Minister of the Interior on Thursday.
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