New Delhi: A protest group in Spain leveraged the power of technology by organizing what is touted as the world's first hologram parading past the lower house of the country's parliament.
The protest was against a series of citizen security bills which have been recently passed in the state that criminalise some forms of protest, including gathering in front of the parliament. The law also makes taking or distributing 'unauthorized' photographs of police a crime punishable with a fine of 30,000 euro.
Protest group, No Somos Delito (We Are Not Crime) held the augmented reality protest against the new measures that they call the country's 'gag law,' which will go into effect July 1, if they survive national and European legal challenges. The hologram projections serve both as protest and as a reminder of the protests that cannot occur as people cannot put their bodies into the streets, Fusion.net reports.
The protesting group has also published a microsite-hologramasporlalibertad.org (Holograms for Freedom)-which lays out the opposition's case against the law, including a lengthy document laying out what the new laws would do.
The site features an introductory video of a woman who turns into a hologram and says, "Ultimately, if you are a person, you won't be allowed to express yourself freely. You will only be able to do it if you are a hologram."
The group's spokesman says, "Our protest with holograms is an irony. With the restrictions we're suffering on our freedoms of association and peaceful assembly, the last option that will be left to us will be to protest through our holograms."
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