MADRID (Sputnik) — The implementation of Spain's Public Security Law, dubbed the "gag law" by its opponents, may result in a superfluous constraint of fundamental civil rights in the country, the deputy director of a local civil group told Sputnik on Friday.
"The risk of disproportionate restriction of fundamental civil rights is extremely high," Patricia Goicoechea Garcia from Rights International Spain said.
According to the deputy director, many Spanish rights groups, including Rights International, have lodged their complaints about the legislation to the United Nations and the Council of Europe. However, the country’s government ignored both bodies’ recommendations received in response to the action.
The law triggered numerous protests and demonstrations, organized by social movements and left-wing parties, across Spain, with Greenpeace activists who climbed a crane in front of the Congress building in Madrid on Tuesday being first to express their discontent with the law.
