Press Censorship in Spain & Portugal
Index on Censorship (SAGE Publishing), 1972
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- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064227208532172
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- reference
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- 2026-09-22
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- Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law
- Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press press controls under a new constitution
- Claim 159: The 1938 Press Law made government permission necessary to found a newspaper, to work as a professional journalist, or to be a newspaper's director.
- Claim 160: Authorities could prosecute journalists for what the law called the diffusion of false and tendentious news against the authority of the state, punishable by three to ten years in prison.
- Claim 161: Even after a 1966 law that claimed to end censorship, Spanish authorities imposed 180 penalties on the press between 1966 and 1968 and drafted still harsher prison terms for journalists.
- Claim 162: A 1926 decree, Law 12008, declared that no censorship existed in Portugal even though censorship had in fact been introduced after that year's coup.
- Claim 163: Only in 1933 did Salazar's government openly establish formal censorship, in the same year a new constitution guaranteed freedom of expression of thought in any form.
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