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Spanish police and protesters clashed for a third night on Thursday over the jailing of a rapper for controversial tweets.
Dozens of people were
arrested since Tuesday night when protests erupted after police detained Pablo Hasel, 32, who had taken refuge in a university in Catalonia to avoid going to jail in a highly contentious free-speech case.
The violence
thrusts the hard-left Podemos party – the junior partner in Spain's left-wing coalition which has opposed Hasel's jailing and publicly supported the protesters – into the firing line.
Police fired tear gas and reported six arrests in Barcelona on Thursday after protesters set up barricades.