The “Pablo Hasél Case” Slander and Defamation of the Spanish Crown in the 21st Century Dopico Gómez-Aller, Jacobo Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-03-18 eng
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 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Dopico Gómez-Aller, Jacobo funded by the government Defamation Freedom of Speech Monarchy Spain 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/hasel-case/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20210318-153948-0 210318 10.17176/20210318-153948-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)