2003 - 2008: Reform of the Statute

The Partido Popular submits an appeal against the statute to the Constitutional Court

The Partido Popular’s parliamentary group in Congress, led by Mariano Rajoy, submits an appeal for protection to the Constitutional Court against the agreements of the […]

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The PP’s appeal to the Constitutional Court against the processing of the reform of the Statute is not admitted

The Constitutional Court did not accept the appeal of the Partido Popular group in Congress against the decisions of the Bureau to admit the proposal […]

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Lleida Provincial Court dismisses in a final decision the lawsuit filed by Jordi Vilaseca for the torture suffered while under arrest

The young man had filed a lawsuit against the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Policía Nacional for torture in the course of his arrest on April […]

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Breaches:

Prison regimeRights to free expression and assembly

The former president of the Basque Parliament, Juan María Atutxa, is convicted

The Supreme Court convicts the former president of the Basque Parliament Juan María Atutxa and the former members of the Kontxi Bilbao and Gorka Knorr […]

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Breaches:

Free parliamentary debateRight to a fair trialRight to political representation

The National Court sentences pro-independence activists Jaume Roura and Enric Stern to 15 months in prison for burning photographs of the king

The prison sentence that the National High Court issued for Roura and Stern for the crime of lèse majesté is eventually replaced by a fine […]

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Breaches:

Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly