DOZENS ARRESTED IN DEMONSTRATIONS AFTER RAPPER JAILED

More than 50 people were arrested and dozens injured during the second night of demonstrations across Spain over the jailing of a rapper. Radical left-wing rapper and activist Pablo Hasel was held by police on Tuesday morning at a university building in Lleida for criminally offensive song lyrics and Twitter posts. A group of supporters had barricaded themselves inside the building after the 32-year-old ignored an order to go to prison. Protests against the rapper's detention first flared in Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia and Valencia on Tuesday. On Wednesday night the protests spread to Madrid, with demonstrators and riot police fighting a pitched battle and resulting in 55 people being injured, mostly police officers.