The Kingdom of Spain is going crazy. The Spanish Inquistion Courts today issued an European Arrest Warrant as well as International Arrest Warrant for Catalan speaker rapper Valonyc. He should be in jail 3,5 years over his lyrics about the Spanish corrupted kingship.
Spain issued this national, international and EU arrest warrant Thursday against Valtonyc, a rapper who may have fled the country just as he was due to enter jail in a case that raised free speech concerns.
The whereabouts of Josep Miquel Arenas Beltran -- better known as Valtonyc -- remain a mystery and speculation is mounting that he has escaped Spain to avoid starting a three-and-a-half-year jail term on Thursday over his songs.
Spain's National Court, which last year found the 24-year-old guilty of insulting the king and issuing threats in his lyrics, issued the warrant at the request of prosecutors who said he was "at large."
If it is confirmed, Valtonyc's escape will come just months after Catalan separatist leaders went into self-exile to escape Spanish authorities over their role in a failed secession bid.
Valtonyc is just one of several Twitter users and rappers who have recently been judged, and some sentenced to jail, for their political opinions causing mounting concern over free speech in Spain. He was sentenced for lyrics published online in 2012 and 2013 at a time when he was a little-known rapper in the Balearic Islands.
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