Madrid, Spain — A Spanish rapper due to begin a controversial nine-month jail sentence over a string of Tweets on Monday barricaded himself inside a Catalan university to avoid arrest, he wrote on Twitter.
“I’m locked inside the University of Lleida with quite a few supporters so they’ll have to break in if they want to arrest me and put me in prison,” Pablo Hasel tweeted.
A spokeswoman for the university in Lerida, which lies 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of Barcelona, confirmed Hasel was at the city center campus with a group of “about 20 supporters”, but said the situation was calm and the police were not involved.
Hasel was given until Friday night to turn himself in …
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