DEMAND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
For Responsibility
"Art is not just a contemplation
is also an act and all acts change the world
at least a little" (Tony Kushner)
The court in Instruction No. 6 of Valladolid just admitted to the lawsuit pending against the Rector of the University of Valladolid, Mark Sexton, and actor Leo Bassi for "crimes against religious feelings, slander and libel" allegedly committed in October 2010 when Bassi represented, in agreement with the school, a parody of John Paul II and devoted condoms distributed at the auditorium of the UVA.
The judge understands that the allegations have characteristics which may presume the existence of a crime against religious feelings and slander and libel and slander has enacted a preliminary investigation under Article 521.1 of the Penal Code and secondarily for the crime section 510 of the CP and the crime of libel and slander.
the complaint was filed by the Christian Lawyers Association and the platform Hear Harte, both ultra-Catholic ideology, citing as witnesses teachers and students who previously "warned" the rector of the show "might be committed offenses well defined in the penal code. " The judge, noting evidence of crime "for the actor's degree of complicity" ordered the opening of proceedings and ordered the police to find the home court of Leo Bassi. For
undersigned groups and cultural associations of Valladolid, theater companies, bands .... This fact is more typical of a dictatorial society in a democratic state and puts in jeopardy the right to freedom of expression
This lawsuit is an example of a system that allows us to speak unfettered continuously both necessary and difficult thing to question the traditional social system stale in the terror and cutting freedoms. Today
attack theater tomorrow it may attack anyone who questions a social system based on injustice, violence, fear, in the suppression of ideas, censorship, exclusion ..
With this release we applaud the bravery of Leo Bassi and also the Chancellor of the UVA who approved the schedule of the lecture / performance.
The theater is that theater can be, you have to criticize, it must maintain its power transformer. The theater is generosity. And the University should be a forum for the expression of ideas and social debate.
We support Leo Bassi and the Rector of the Uva p or we think culture is the essence of building a just, democratic, freedom and solidarity. And we believe that the optimism displayed by Leo Bassi in his work as clown shows that their joy is a powerful tool that allows us to move forward and "get around" the power that runs over, and that minimizes always strives to make our dreams waste.
and we reject any attempt to suppress ideas.
BY
SHARED DREAMS FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
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