Catalonia

Carles Puigdemont, the exiled politician who led Catalonia's failed independence bid in 2017, has been arrested in Italy on the foot of a European arrest warrant. Mr Puigdemont is wanted by Spanish prosecutors for sedition after organising an independence referendum in defiance of the Spanish courts

Sibel Top, a PhD fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, considers whether EU extradition laws have passed the "Catalan test". On 8 March 2021, the European Parliament voted to lift the immunity of Catalan MEPs, Puigdemont, Comin and Ponsati. Although this

The European Parliament has voted to strip three Catalan MEPs wanted by Spanish prosecutors in connection with the 2017 independence referendum of their immunity from prosecution. Spanish extradition requests for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, former health minister Toni Comín an

Lengthy prison sentences imposed on nine Catalan pro-independence leaders by the Spanish courts yesterday risk having "a chilling effect on freedom of expression and association", a human rights expert has warned. Former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras was yesterday sentenced to 13 years in p