‘CatalanGate’: politicians, activists accuse Spain of ‘huge & illegal’ spying
Catalan pro-independence politicians and activists have accused Spain of spying on dozens of its leaders’ cell phones with Pegasus spyware, after details came to light...
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Spanish government approves fund to exhume graves at Valley of the Fallen
A total of €665,000 has been approved by the Spanish government for the exhumation and identification of some 33,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War...
Rapper Pablo Hasél detained by police, after barricading himself in at Lleida University
#UPDATED – 16 Feb The Catalan police (Mossos d’Esquadra) have now detained the rapper Pablo Hasél, who had been asked to turn himself in to serve...
ECHR rules Spain did not violate Human Rights with immediate deportations
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it immediately deported two...
Amnesty International again calls for two ‘Jordis’ immediate release
Amnesty International has released a report criticising the verdict of the nine Catalan referendum leaders, sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison on 14...
‘Without journalism, there is no democracy’ protest in Barcelona
At least 65 journalists have been injured whilst covering protests against the verdict and sentence of the Catalan Trial so far, with statistics showing that roughly...
Franco exhumation to be carried out by 25 October
The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, after years of delays and legal wrangles, will finally be exhumed from his tomb in the Valley of the...
Up to 9 years in jail for youths involved in police bar brawl
Eight young people in Altsasu, Navarra, have been sentenced to up to nine and a half years in jail for a bar brawl with two...
Spain still divided after 80th anniversary of end of civil war
Spain has marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the 1936-39 civil war, after which began the dictatorship of Franco, with the country still divided...
Amnesty calls on Spain to release migrant rescue ships
Amnesty International has called on the Spanish government to take steps to allow two vessels confined to the ports of Barcelona and Pasaia (in the Basque...
