MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's conservative government agreed on Friday to toughen penalties for unauthorised street protests up to a possible 600,000 euro (498,290 pounds) fine, a crackdown that belies the peaceful record of the anti-austerity protests of recent years.
Leftists and civil rights activists have labelled the bill the "Kick in the teeth law" because it penalises a battery of protest measures in what they say is a disregard for democracy in a country that only emerged from right-wing dictatorship in the late 1970s.
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