Thousands of holographic protesters end-run Spain’s ‘gag law’
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Spanish law now limits the right to protest publicly, but it has failed to stop the creativity of protesters.
Activists against the Citizen Safety Law, dubbed the "gag law" by opposition groups, "saw the need to carry out a different kind of protest that would allow our demands to become unstoppable: the first hologram protest in history." (Source: RT.com)
The sweeping power given to Spanish authorities in December makes it illegal to protest outside government buildings, illegal to insult police officers, illegal to refuse to show identification documents.
The law imposes a fine for showing disrespect to anyone in uniform and a much bigger fine for photographing or filming police officers “where they could be put in danger.”
Nevertheless, thousands marched past a Spanish parliament building in Madrid in direct defiance of the law — but none of them was there in person.
Instead, protestors participated as holograms.
Activists projected the holographic protesters onto the streets in front of the Parliament for about an hour Friday night — a protest that could otherwise have carried a fine of more than $30,000 for each protester.
As it turned out, nobody was arrested for the Friday protest.
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