March 26, 2015, 15:38 Madrid, Mar 26 (Prensa Latina) The Spanish Parliament approved today with the votes of the Popular Party (PP), a Law Public Safety and a reform of the Penal Code criticized by the opposition, which considers limiting the right of expression.
Virtually isolated from other political forces, representatives of the PP gave the green light to the call gag, several parties announced repealed when changing the political balance.
The law legalizes called Returns hot as rejection is identified immigrants at the border without fulfilling paperwork and also allows the identification of people with their faces covered.
It also establishes fines of up to 600,000 euros for certain public demonstrations, which the opposition considers an attempt to prevent protests against economic and social policy of the PP government.
The Congress also approved an amendment to the Penal Code and an anti-terrorism pact that are equally concerned by the opposition attempts to muzzle the public.
More than 70 built on the platform organizations There are Crime, UN special rapporteurs and professors of Spanish universities criminologists expressed opposition to the measures they consider violate the rights of expression and manifestation.
One of the most controversial aspects of the reform of the Penal Code is the establishment of life imprisonment, the law calls revisable permanent prison.
The Criminal Code offenses behaviors before now considered faults are considered, in consequent increased penalties for social protest as the occupation of banks and demonstrations against parliamentary institutions.
We Are Not Crime launched a campaign to collect signatures against the Public Safety Act and the reform of the Code Criminal besides protest actions.
On February 23, several special rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council UN asked the Spanish authorities prevent the adoption of limitations on the rights of expression and assembly, inter alia
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