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This page discusses other sedition regimes
It covers -
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with the preceding page it supplements the discussion
elsewhere on this site of censorship
and hatespeech.
Europe
Other European states feature legislation restricting
sedition and incitement or endorsement of terrorism.
In 2006 for example Spain's High Court jailed Basque politician
Arnaldo Otegi, leader of the outlawed pro-separatist Batasuna
party, for 15 months for "glorifying terrorism"
by praising Eta leader Jose Miguel Benaran Ordenana at
a memorial service in 2003. He was also banned from standing
for political office or voting for seven years. Otegi
is thought to have played a decisive role in persuading
Eta armed separatists to declare a permanent ceasefire.
He denied that his homage amounted to glorification of
terrorism or Eta: "My message was only an act of
remembrance for a person murdered 25 years ago for political
reasons". He had been sentenced to a year's imprisonment
in 2005 for insulting Spain's monarch, whom he accused
of being "responsible for torturers", but the
term was waived as "a first offence".
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