MADRID, April 12 (UPI) -- Due to a new law that will forbid Spanish citizens from protesting in front of government buildings, activists displayed a hologram of protesters in front of the Congress of Deputies in the capital.
"Our protest with holograms is ironic," said spokesman Carlos Escano, according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and CNN. "With the restrictions we're suffering on our freedoms of association and peaceful assembly, the last option that will be left to us in the end will be to protest through our holograms."
The law, called the Citizen Safety Law, forbids anyone from demonstrating in front of Congress or other parliament buildings, and violators can be fined over $30,000. It will take effect starting in July.
The campaign, called "We are not crime," has a website that encourages anyone who disagrees with the ideas behind the law to volunteer themselves to become a hologram.
The activists say this was the first hologram protest ever done.
