Court Injunction in Spain Stops BDS Boycott | ACOM

Yesterday Court number 4 of Oviedo ordered the immediate suspension of any operation concerning the decisions that the City Council of Langreo (Asturias) passed on 28 January 2016, declaring this coal-mining town of 42,000 inhabitants, an ‘Israeli Apartheid Free Space’, while endorsing cooperation with the campaign to boycott Israel. The judicial judgement was issued in a fast-track proceeding for the protection of constitutional rights filed by Angel Mas —chairman of ACOM (Action and Communication on the Middle East)— who upholds that such Council decisions were in breach of the rights to academic freedom, equality before the law, non-discrimination, free speech, academic freedom, and the right to not be compelled to make any statement about ideology, religion or beliefs.