Pablo Hasél from prison: “The streets are burning because …

Rapper Pablo Hasel, arrested Tuesday of last week for criticizing the monarchy and the Spanish security forces in their tweets and his songs, wrote a prison poem titled “Fire in the Streets”, in reference to the massive demonstrations taking place in the country to denounce the lack of press freedom and demand the release of the artist.

From the Ponent Prison Center, where he is serving a sentence of over nine months in prison for “glorifying terrorism and insulting the Crown”, Hasél continues to use art as his main form of expression. “The streets burn because before they burn us”says the poem, alluding to the container fire that several protesters have carried out in recent days of protest.

“They burn, dreaming of being reduced to ashes / The luxurious offices where so many lives are ruined”, the text continues. And he continues: “They burn (the streets) in search of the spark that ignites everything / What threatens our dignity / And they put their hands to the head / The hypocrites who defend the causes / Who cause flames of despair / Import more containers / Who eats these jobs and garbage. “

The poem was signed on February 19, three days after his incarceration, and was posted on his Twitter profile, which has been managed by the Llibertat Hasél platform since the rapper was behind bars.

Hasél received the support of the intellectual, cultural, artistic and journalistic fields, with manifestos signed, among others, by the famous filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar or the singer Joan Manuel Serrat, while organizations such as Amnesty International (AI) judged the unfair and disproportionate imprisonment. .

This week the Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel wrote a letter to the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, in which he called for the release of the rapper since his detention “violates the right to freedom of expression, to diversity of ideas and to express himself publicly, condemning a person who has committed no crime for public demonstration.