The leader of Spain’s Rap Rock Group Def Con Dos will serve a year for "glorifying terrorism"
Spain’s Supreme court has sentenced rapper César Strawberry to one year in prison for tweets “glorifying terrorism” and “humiliating victims.”
The high court found that Tweets sent by Strawberry, leader of the popular and polemical rap-rock band Def Con Dos, “feed the discourse of hate [and] legitimize terrorism as a formula for resolving social conflicts,” according to court documents quoted by Spain’s El Pais newspaper.
Strawberry, whose real name is César Augusto Montaña Lehmann, was found guilty of sending a series of tweets between 2013 and 2014 that made reference to the Spanish militant group GRAPO, and also to José Antonio Ortega Lara, a former prison officer who was kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA in 1996 and confined to a small room in a damp basement for 532 days before being freed.