Un comentario sobre “Hoy, en el editorial”

1. Translated:

   Title:
   Intolerable censorship attempt against a columnist of ELMUNDO

   Image Caption:
   Pablo Iglesias, during the presentation of Echenique’s book in Madrid. Ricardo Rubio Europa Press

   The judicial victory of this newspaper’s columnist Santiago González over the father of Pablo Iglesias is the triumph of freedom of expression over the attempt to coerce a journalist to force him to self-censorship. Francisco Javier Iglesias Peláez, father of the former leader of Podemos, has been forced to withdraw the lawsuit he filed against González for having quoted his «terrorist» past in an article, having lost the lawsuit he brought against Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo on the same issue, in his case for having said it in an interview.

   The court that processed it considered that there was no interference in the right to honor -Pablo Iglesias himself has boasted of being the son of a member of the FRAP- and ordered Iglesias Pelaez to pay the costs, who last week wanted to avoid another setback by reaching an agreement with Gonzalez. In the legal proposal, the father of the former vice-president offered to withdraw the lawsuit in exchange for the costs. But it also included an intolerable «confidentiality clause» that obliged Gonzalez not to write about his past. A crude attempt of coercion to force him to self-censor, which the columnist flatly rejected, but which portrays an anti-democratic mood that Pablo Iglesias himself often demonstrates when pointing out uncomfortable media.

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