Spain’s Constitutional Court rejects PP’s appeal and upholds Catalan amnesty law
After four days of deliberations, Spain’s Constitutional Court has upheld core elements of the disputed Catalan amnesty law, rejecting an appeal against it by six...
Catalan Trial
Catalan MEP Clara Ponsatí released after being detained on returning to Spain
UPDATED – 29 March at 8am Clara Ponsatí was finally released on Tuesday night at around 11pm, after declaring before a Barcelona judge following her...
Supreme Court maintains misuse of funds & disobedience charges against Puigdemont
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld its decision to indict former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont for the crimes of misuse of public funds and disobedience. The...
Spain to update sedition law to become ‘aggravated public disorder’
The coalition government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is introducing a bill to reform the criminal code by updating the offence of ‘sedition’, bringing...
Amid political in-fighting, Catalan independence takes to the streets again for ‘La Diada’
While the local police in Barcelona calculated that 150,000 people attended a mass pro-independence rally in the city on Sunday, coinciding with ‘La Diada’ (the...
UN human rights committee says Spain at fault for suspension of Catalan MPs
Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have said that Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan government and parliament by...
Supreme Court to allow appeals against pardons given to Catalan independence leaders
Spain’s Supreme Court has reversed its decision to uphold the pardons granted for the formerly jailed Catalan independence leaders. On Tuesday, the court voted in favour...
Catalan government rejects spying investigation, demands resignations
The Spanish government has promised full transparency by opening an ‘internal investigation’ into allegations that 65 pro-independence Catalan politicians and activists have been the target of...
Puigdemont returns to Belgium before Sardinia extradition hearing on 4 Oct
Final update on Sun 26 Sept at 19h. Former Catalan president and MEP Carles Puigdemont, detained by Italian police on his arrival to Sardinia on Thursday evening...
Sánchez and Aragonès resume talks, despite ‘radically different’ views
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with the Catalan President Pere Aragonès in Barcelona on Wednesday – at the start of resuming ‘dialogue’ between the two governments on resolving the Catalan...
