Unrest broke out in Spain this week following the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasel for glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his music and on Twitter.
On Saturday, looting broke out as police and demonstrators in Barcelona clashed for a fifth night. Thousands hit the streets across the country. Angry demonstrations first erupted on Tuesday after police detained Hasel, 32, and took him to jail to start serving a nine-month sentence in a highly contentious free speech case., clashing with police in disturbances which began in Hasel's home region of Catalonia, but have since spread to Madrid and beyond.
In Madrid, around 400 people gathered under a heavy police presence in the city centre, chanting and clapping. Earlier, several hundreds had gathered in the southern cities of Malaga, Cordoba and Seville, local media reported, with another 100 protesters gathering in the northern city of Santander and a similar number in Logrono.
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