By / Abeer Almadawy- Barcelona-Spain 

Thousands of Protests went to the street in Barcelona- span ,refusing the charges against rapper Pablo Hasel.

on Tuesday evening huge demonstration below up in the streets of Barcelona, demanding the release of a rapper arrested by police after being sentenced on charges of glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty.

Police stormed Lleida University in northeastern Spain earlier in the day and arrested Pablo Hasel who had barricaded himself in, missing a deadline last Friday night to surrender to police to serve a nine-month jail term handed down in 2018. 

At issue were his lyrics and a series of tweets that included references to the Basque separatist paramilitary group ETA, compared Spanish judges to Nazis, called former king Juan Carlos a mafia boss and accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators and migrants.

The sentence caused uproar in Spain and led the government to announce it would make free speech laws less restrictive. After Hasel's arrest, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo reiterated the plans to reform the law and told reporters that jailing people over matters of freedom of speech should not happen in a democracy.