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His messages were "not merely irritating or annoying, but rather oppressive and unacceptable, thereby crossing the threshold into harassment", Julia Faure Walker, for the prosecution, said on Thursday.

One study suggested that by irritating the nose and lungs, they stimulate a sharp intake of breath and a short-term rush of oxygen to the brain.

It also had a habit of irritating and, occasionally, enraging the president so much that he wanted it cancelled.

“It has for sure been an irritating process, to see how poorly they treat the people who are trying to get access to their families in these places,” Alejandro Barranco said.

Such regimes rely on a compliant media propaganda machine, requiring satirists to be among the first to go along with journalists, academics and any other critics with irritating addictions to fact, law and reason.