Three men arrested for gang rape in Catalan seaside town
Three men have been arrested in Catalonia for gang rape that allegedly took place in the seaside town of Blanes on Saturday night and Sunday...
Violence against women
Protests in Manresa against latest gang rape incident
Hundreds took to the streets in the city of Manresa in Catalonia on Tuesday evening to protest another gang rape incident that saw four men held...
Echoes of ‘wolf pack’ case in new gang rape trial
The trial against six men who have been accused of sexually assaulting a then 14-year-old girl in 2016 in Manresa, Catalonia, began on Tuesday, sparking a large protest...
‘Wolf Pack’ verdict overruled: gang receive 15-year sentences
Spain’s Supreme Court has overruled the ‘La Manada’ (wolf pack) case’s controversial verdict, charging five men with rape, not sexual abuse, and increasing their prison...
General Election focus: the Vox party
Spain has its own version of the far-right and the populist turned mainstream, part of a wave that has been surging through Europe: Vox, a...
Millions protest across Spain on International Women’s Day
Millions in Spain marked International Women’s Day on Friday with a pro-equality strike and mass protests, in what has become a key political issue with a general...
Spain gears up for protests on International Women’s Day
Feminists across Spain are gearing up again for International Women’s Day on 8 March, after a feminist strike last year spawned an unprecedented wave of...
Six arrested in Sabadell over alleged gang rape
The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, have arrested six men in Sabadell, a town in the surroundings of Barcelona, for allegedly gang-raping an 18-year-old woman....
Spanish feminists protest at far-right ‘sexist’ party
Spain’s powerful feminist movement rallied across the country on Tuesday against far-right party Vox for seeking to scrap tough laws against gender violence which it...
Spanish feminists face far-right backlash
After a year of massive mobilisation, Spain’s powerful feminist movement is facing a backlash with the emergence of far-right party Vox which wants to repeal...
