Spanish photographer Colita has become the second artist in just over a week to reject an award from Spain’s Education and Culture Ministry this autumn amid discontent over government policies for the arts.
The live broadcasts of three Spanish television shows were interrupted within the space of single week recently by a man claiming to have information about secrets links between the CIA and the Spanish government.
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.
Spain's head of police has warned there is a "growth in violence" aimed at "destabilizing the rule of law" in Spain, but many Spaniards think his words are a trumped-up "conspiracy" to justify harsher police powers.
Two daredevil protesters chained themselves to the facade of a Barcelona church on Friday morning to demonstrate against Spain's proposed new abortion law.
The mayor of Spain's northern city of Burgos on Friday scrapped a costly street redevelopment that sparked a week of spreading protests and scattered violence.
The small Spanish city of Burgos saw its third day of riots on Sunday as protesters continued to vent their anger against their town hall's plans to reduce the number of lanes and parking spaces on one of its main streets.
Footage showing police striking unarmed women with batons before arresting them in Madrid on Friday after a protest against abortion reforms has been widely shared on the internet.
Around 2,000 protesters were met by riot police outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Saturday in a protest that turned violent against the country's tough new Citizen Security Law.
The government of Spain's Valencia region is investigating a local primary school where it says children as young as six could have been 'brainwashed' into carrying out a political protest.
On Tuesday Spain unveiled a draft Citizen Security Law which could mean huge fines for everything from filming a policeman to drinking on the street. Read on to find out what other activities could soon be a thing of the past if the legislation gets the green light.
Spain's left-wing opposition Tuesday fiercely criticized a planned government reform which would reportedly toughen penalties for unauthorized demonstrations and make it an offence to "insult" a police officer.
Spanish scientists working in Germany have warned that the government's failure to back science in Spain could lead to a permanent exodus of talent as hundreds of researchers marched in protest through Madrid on Friday under the slogan 'Without science there is no future'.
Around 100 workers at Madrid's La Paz hospital have gathered to protest against the privatization of healthcare in Madrid, Spain, and to demand that Cristina Cifuentes, the Popular Party politician currently undergoing treatment there after a traffic accident, be moved to a private hospital.
The Spanish arm of feminist protest group FEMEN is undergoing intensive training before embarking on an anti-sexism campaign of public nudity under the banner "Our weapons are bare breasts".
Thousands of people protested Saturday in European cities against the "troika" of international powers whose
financial crisis policies they blame for worsening their economic hardship.
The Spanish capital has surpassed Berlin as the European city with the highest number of street protests in 2013, having already more than doubled the number of demonstrations that were carried out in the first four months of 2012.
Thousands of Spaniards on Sunday gathered to mark the second anniversary of the "indignants" movement formed to protest economic inequality as unemployment in the debt ridden country last month hit record levels.
Hundreds of Spanish doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, many wearing white lab coats, marched in Madrid on Sunday against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services.
Thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Madrid and other cities in Spain against European Union leaders' handling of the financial crisis, condemning "an EU that belongs to the markets".
Homeowners ruined by Spain's economic crisis and their defenders hailed a big step forward on Thursday after Europe's top court ruled that the country's eviction laws breached EU rules.
Public sector workers, small political parties and non-profit organizations will stage protests on Saturday against government austerity measures in dozens of Spanish cities, with the biggest demonstration expected for Madrid.
