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Today's program focuses on a few current issues in Spain: the massive feminist strike has been followed by huge demonstrations of pensioners protesting the government's sustainability plan and demanding decent pensions. Amnesty International published a report critical of Spain's use of a vaguely worded antiiterrorism law that the organization says censors free speech. AI notes that in the past two years convictions for crimes of "extolling terrorism" and "humiliating the victims of terrorism" have skyrocketed. At the same time, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg overturned a Spanish ruling against two Catalan men who burned a photograph of the King and Queen in 2007. And more.