On 23 October 2019 peaceful activist Frank van der Linde found out the Dutch Police was associating him with terrorism when sending data to other countries' law enforcement.

Four years later in Spain, top Spanish courts investigated 11 Catalan activists, including journalist Jesús Rodríguez, for terrorism in the context of peaceful protests; 7 of them were forced into exile. Charges against Jesús Rodríguez were based on him having information on protests that took place in Barcelona.

This talk goes over the bizarre, worrying and, frankly, sometimes quite funny journey that Frank van der Linde and Jesús Rodríguez have embarked on to defend their rights, and the European trends they illustrate.