The photo shows D. Antonio Fontan addressing the Spanish Senate. Spanish journalist who fought for press freedom under Franco's Regime. He and his staff for the newspaper Madrid were persecuted. After the end of Franco's regime, Fontan was elected to the Spanish Senate as a member of the Unión de Centro Democrático coalition party in the first democratic general elections in June 1977. He was one of the authors of the country’s Constitution of 1978, which recognized freedom of expression and freedom of information as fundamental rights. He also served as a minister of the government from 1979 to 1982.

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Please go ahead and use the photo of Antonio Fontan, as well as text from "50 IPI Press Freedom Heroes". Reference to IPI would be greatly appreciated.

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Their email is in response to my email which contains the following paragraphs:

I would like to ask your permission to use the article and the photo of Antonio Fontan, one of the Press Freedom Heroes of IPI, for Wikipedia:

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If not the whole article, perhaps we can use a part of it. Of course, I am also interested in using the photo as well.

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