https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spain's upstart left-wing protest party Podemos, which tops the polls ahead of a year-end general election, said on Monday it plans to hold a massive demonstration in Madrid on January 31st to press for political change. https://www.thelocal.es/20150113/podemos-demo-political-change Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:11:00 +0100 podemos-demo-political-change A video of police wearing riot gear but no ID badges initiating what appears to be an unprovoked attack on a group of photojournalists on Saturday at a small-scale protest in the Spanish capital has been uploaded to social media. https://www.thelocal.es/20140331/video-riot-cops-hit-reporters-at-madrid-demo Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:39:00 +0200 video-riot-cops-hit-reporters-at-madrid-demo Ana Botella, mayor of Spain's capital city, wants to "regulate" the right to hold public demonstrations in the centre of Madrid in the wake of police clashes with protesters after last weekend's "March for Dignity". https://www.thelocal.es/20140327/madrid-mayor-wants-to-restrict-right-to-protest Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:03:00 +0100 madrid-mayor-wants-to-restrict-right-to-protest Amnesty International has warned that police behaviour at demonstrations is one of a number of areas in which Spain 'must improve' its human rights record. https://www.thelocal.es/20130523/riot-cop-force-tops-spanish-list-of-shame Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:00 +0200 riot-cop-force-tops-spanish-list-of-shame