Spain’s top court exonerates woman who tweeted jokes about Franco’s PM

Spain’s supreme court exonerated on Thursday (1 March) a young woman sentenced in 2017 to a year in prison and seven years of complete disqualification for tweeting several jokes about a former prime minister assassinated in a 1973 bombing by Basque separatists.

Cassandra Vera during her trial at Spain's national court in Madrid, Spain, on 22 March 2017. [EFE-EPA FILE/BALLESTEROS/POOL]

EURACTIV with efe-epa 02-03-2018 07:01 3 min. read Content type: Euractiv is part of the Trust Project

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