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Protesters chant "It's not abuse, it's rape!" after a nine-year prison sentence was given to five men accused of the multiple rape of a woman during Pamplona's San Fermin festival in 2016, in Pamplona, Spain, April 26, 2018. | Photo: Reuters. Previous; Next. Published 26 April 2018. 0. Comments. AddThis Sharing Buttons.

Five other people - four British men and a woman, thought to be Spanish, who were under investigation on suspicion of obstruction of justice - have also had their bail conditions lifted by the same Spanish judge and told they are free to go. The archive is a provisional one - meaning Corner can be tried if ...

THE FAMILY of Lisa Brown, the Scottish mum-of-one who went missing more than two-years-ago, has spoken of their shock when they heard the news the judge had 'frozen' the case. Judge Garcia Ramila sensationally shelved the case against prime suspect Simon Corner at the request of state ...

The Catalan independence movement has little support in Bavaria, the German federal state, which has its own unique culture and one of the highest per capita incomes in the European Union. For half a century, the state has been governed by the Christian Social Union (CSU), a coalition partner of ...

Catalonia's parliament has called for legal charges to be brought against a Spanish Supreme Court judge for refusing to release a jailed pro-independence politician who had hoped to be elected its regional leader, Reuters said. The complaint on Friday was the latest broadside in a tussle between ...

A Spanish judge on Thursday formally charged the former chief of Catalonia's regional police force with sedition over his alleged role in the wealthy region's independence push. Judge Carmen Lamela of the National Court, which deals with high-profile political and financial cases, said in her ruling there ...

They are: Abderrahim Zbakh, Farid Oulad Ali and Mohamed El Hadi Chedadi, whose brother, Said Chedadi, was indicted last September by a Spanish judge for links to al Qaeda.- The fourth suspect is not identified but is described as being of Arab descent.- The fifth suspect is a Spanish citizen who goes ...

The detention came two days after a Spanish judge issued European arrest warrants for Puigdemont and other fugitive separatist leaders. They have been ordered to stand trial for rebellion, misuse of public funds and disobeying the state for organising last year's referendum on Catalan independence, ...

Puigdemont was detained entering Germany from Denmark over a week ago as he was returning from Finland to Belgium, where he has been living in exile, after a Spanish judge issued a European arrest warrant for him. Puigdemont has appealed to the Spanish Supreme Court and asked it to dismiss the ...

The detention came two days after a Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants for Puigdemont and other fugitive separatist leaders. They have been ordered to stand trial for rebellion, misuse of public funds and disobeying the state for organising last year's referendum on Catalan independence, ...

2: A Spanish judge jails nine former officials of Catalonia's separatist government, and deliberates issuing a possible arrest warrant for Puigdemont, who remained in Belgium while the others were questioned in Madrid about the region's bid for independence. The judge sent eight of the officials to jail ...

A national arrest warrant has now been elevated to an international order, signed off by a Spanish judge in recent days. Corner is said to have broken his bail conditions last month by failing to sign in at a Spanish police station. The 36-year-old has previously been on the run and spent time as a named ...

Ex-Ecuadorian President and RT show host Rafael Correa sits down with prominent Spanish judge and WikiLeaks lawyer Baltasar Garzon. The two of them talk transnational, corporate “neocolonialism” and the fight against corruption. Read more. Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa © Daniel Tapia ...

A Spanish judge on Friday issued international arrest warrants against Puigdemont and four others involved in the region's independence movement. Finnish police told AFP on Saturday they had received the arrest warrant, but would not act on it until Finnish prosecutors had received the requested ...

BARCELONA, Spain — A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered five Catalan politicians to be detained without bail, a decision that reignited tensions in the region as the central government struggled to quell the secessionist movement in Catalonia. The judge, Pablo Llarena, also issued ...

Puigdemont slips out of Finland despite arrest warrant: Lawyer. A Spanish judge on Friday issued international arrest warrants against Puigdemont and four others involved in the region's independence movement. (Photo: AFP/Emmanuel Dunand). 25 Mar 2018 01:41AM (Updated: 25 Mar 2018 06:19AM ) ...

Puigdemont, who is himself in self-imposed exile in Belgium, also criticized a Spanish judge's decision to charge him and other 12 Catalan separatists with rebellion on Friday. "It is not right for a judge to do politics," the former leader said just moments after the court ruling. Puigdemont's comments come ...

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2017 file photo, fired Catalan Cabinet member Jordi Turull, center, arrives with other former Cabinet members at the national court in Madrid, Spain. The Catalan Parliament speaker has set a Thursday March 22, 2018 vote in the afternoon to elect as the next regional president, a former ...

A Spanish judge has summoned Catalan separatists he is probing for their alleged role in the region's independence drive to tell them what they are charged with, the penultimate step before trial. Among those summoned to the Supreme Court on Friday is Jordi Turull, the former Catalan government ...

A Spanish judge in 2014 suspended the company's UberPop service which enables unregulated drivers to ferry passengers, saying the drivers had to be given official authorisation to transport clients. Then in December 2017, the EU's top court validated this, ruling that Uber was an ordinary transportation ...

In short, the European judges on the panel (including one Spanish judge) found it to be a manifestation of freedom of expression that is guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights as well as by the Spanish Constitution. The implementation of this judgment is an urgent matter. Spanish ...

MADRID (AP) - The speaker of Catalonia's assembly suspended Friday a vote to elect the northeast Spanish region's new president, and no new date was scheduled. Regional parliament Speaker Roger Torrent decided to wait for a European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether a jailed leader of the ...

MADRID (AP) - The speaker of Catalonia's assembly suspended Friday a vote to elect the northeast Spanish region's new president, and no new date was scheduled. Regional parliament Speaker Roger Torrent decided to wait for a European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether a jailed leader of the ...

MADRID (AP) - The speaker of Catalonia's assembly suspended Friday a vote to elect the northeast Spanish region's new president, and no new date was scheduled. Regional parliament Speaker Roger Torrent decided to wait for a European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether a jailed leader of the ...

In a 26-page ruling, Spanish judge Pablo Llarena based his decision not to let Sanchez out on his belief there was a risk of a repeat offence. A Catalan parliament spokesman said Monday's parliamentary session would still go ahead. On Friday, the Spanish government's spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Supreme court said on Friday that the candidate to lead the Catalan government would not be permitted to leave the jail to attend an investiture vote next week. Catalonia's parliament is expected to convene next Monday to vote on the region's new leader. The candidate put ...

Spain's Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from a jailed Catalan separatist leader to attend the northeastern region's parliament, where lawmakers are due to vote on whether to make him president of Catalonia. Judge Pablo Llarena wrote in a ruling that there was a risk that Jordi Sanchez ...

Between 2010 and 2013, Spanish judges decided that they dozens and dozens of women shouldn't ever have children. They ordered the women to undergo an irreversible sterilisation procedure, arguing it was in their best interests. Little is known about these roughly 400 women, and it's not clear whether ...

MADRID – A judge from Spain's Supreme Court issued on Wednesday a national arrest warrant for a politician from Catalonia who had been due to testify on the region's recent declaration of independence but recently fled to Switzerland. Anna Gabriel, the former regional parliamentary spokesperson for the left-wing ...

Spanish army members grab a giant Spanish flag due to strong wind during the raising ceremony of the Spanish national flag at the Colon square in Madrid, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. A Spanish judge has ordered the arrest of a leading Catalan separatist politician Anna Gabriel if she returns to Spain ...

Carles Puigdemont appears on a giant screen during an election event in Barcelona on Monday. Photograph: Manu Fernandez/AP. A Spanish judge has lifted the extradition order on the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and four former cabinet members who fled to Belgium to avoid charges ...

The Spanish government took control of the Catalan region a week ago. Separatist politicians were jailed in Madrid on Thursday, pending a trial. And Friday, a Spanish judge issued an arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email ...

A JUDGE in Spain has sensationally shelved the case against prime suspect Simon Corner in the Lisa Brown murder case at the request of state ... Five other people who were under investigation on suspicion of obstruction of justice have also had their bail conditions lifted. by the same Spanish judge.

The move comes after a Spanish judge issued a warrant for a Catalan minister in Scotland. Warrant: The ... A Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants on Friday for Ms Ponsati and other fugitive politicians including Catalonia's ex-leader Carles Puigdemont, who is presently in custody in Germany.

His brother, Said Chedadi, was indicted last September by a Spanish judge for links to al Qaeda.- The fourth suspect is not identified but is described as being of Arab descent.- The fifth suspect is a Spanish citizen who goes by the name of Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras. He is arrested in northern Spain.