nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210318-153948-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210318s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210318-153948-0 doi eng 342 23 Dopico Gómez-Aller, Jacobo Author aut The “Pablo Hasél Case” Slander and Defamation of the Spanish Crown in the 21st Century Dopico Gómez-Aller, Jacobo Verfassungsblog 2021-03-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In Spain, the recent conviction of the rapper Pablo Hasél for ‘crimes of expression’ has aroused intense public debate. He defamed members of the Spanish royal family, which is an aggravated offence under the Spanish Penal Code, as compared to defamation of any other member of the public. The reasoning of Hasél’s sentence is, on several points, hardly compatible with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in terms of freedom of expression. It is, in fact, an overzealous application of an already problematic offence, variations of which the ECHR has already condemned. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Defamation Freedom of Speech Monarchy Spain Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/hasel-case/ raw object