LIVE: Protest over arrest of Pablo Hasel takes place in Barcelona

Ruptly is live from Barcelona on Wednesday, February 17, as protests over the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel take place. On Tuesday, February 16, protests ended in riots and resulted in at least 14 arrests in Barcelona, Vic, and Lleida, according to the Mossos d’Esquadra law-enforcement. Pablo Hasel was arrested on Tuesday morning at the rectorate of the University of Lleida. Hasel, alongside a group of supporters, had barricaded themselves inside the building in protest against his sentence. According to a court ruling, Pablo Hasel faces a nine-month jail term for publishing ‘tweets with videos that incited violence,’ as well as messages that the magistrates consider to have ’exalted terrorism and humiliated the Crown and other state institutions, such as the Armed Forces and the police forces.’