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(15 Feb 2021) A Spanish rap singer locked himself in a Catalan university on Monday to avoid a prison sentence for writing songs that authorities say attacks the monarchy and glorifies terrorism.
Pablo Hasel had been given until last Friday to turn himself in, but instead barricaded himself at Lleida University, some 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Barcelona.
Around 50 students held a protest in support of Hasel and said they would remain with him until police arrived.
Hasel was given a nine-month prison sentence for attacking the Spanish monarchy with his songs.  
"I won't allow them to tell me what I have to think, feel or say. So this gives me as an extra impetus to keep writing the same songs," he said, before entering the university building with his supporters.
Hasel, whose real name is Pablo Rivadulla Duro, often writes songs in defence of members of ETA and GRAPO, two armed groups that Spain considers terror organisations.
He previously faced a sentence in 2018, with prosecutors seeking an almost three-year sentence for exalting terrorism and slandering the Spanish monarchy and other Spanish institutions.

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