118 posts in 2020 during 2020 - Present: Impasse in the independence movement
16 November 2020
The the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs discusses for the first time the lifting of the immunity of Carles Puigdemont, Antoni Comín and Clara […]
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European Arrest Warrants17 November 2020
The prisoners argue that Narváez lacks impartiality to resolve the appeals for protection based on the magistrate’s value judgements during the conference entitled ‘The Catalan […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial24 November 2020
The Provincial Court of Barcelona acquits the four demonstrators of the crime against traffic safety but sentences Francisco Garrobo, member of the Municipal Secretariat of […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly28 November 2020
Adrián is a young man from Vilafranca del Penedès arrested on 11 December 2018 for his participation in the protests of the first anniversary of […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficeRights to free expression and assembly4 December 2020
The Court considers that the granting of the third degree status to the prisoners of the 1 October case is premature. Bassa and Forcadell, who, […]
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Prison regime12 December 2020
The General Directorate of the Police opens a disciplinary case and relieves a Mosso d’Esquadra officer of the General Commissariat of Information of his duties […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly14 December 2020
Despite the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office having objected as many as three times to the phone tapping (for which some of the defendants sought annulment) as […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly14 December 2020
In July, the Supreme Court had already annulled the 2012 ruling in line with the orders of the European Court of Human Rights and the […]
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Right to a fair trial15 December 2020
The leader of the ERC has appealed the European Court’s decision to remove him from office pursuant to the Supreme Court’s ruling to disqualify him […]
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Politicisation of justiceRight to political representation16 December 2020
The Provincial Court of Madrid sentences Dani Gallardo to four and a half years in prison for the crimes of public disturbance, attack on authority […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly16 December 2020
Montserrat Mindan has been acquitted of the crime of disobedience for allowing municipal premises to be used for the 1 October referendum. The court magistrate, […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly16 December 2020
The State Attorney, representing the Spanish Ministry of Education, alleges that the Government of Catalonia is not complying with the regulations regarding the use of […]
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Catalan languagePoliticisation of justice17 December 2020
The Constitutional Court has finally rejected the appeal, which was lodged by around thirty people in opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling in July 2018, […]
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Free parliamentary debateRight to political representation18 December 2020
The trial is part of the investigation opened in October 2019 against José Ramón Prado Bugallo, also known as ‘Sito Miñanco,’ who was represented in […]
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Politicisation of justice21 December 2020
The vice-president of the Catalan Government, Pere Aragonès, signs the decree calling for Catalan elections for 14 February 2021, after the expiry of the two-month […]
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Central Electoral BoardJudicial vetoes of elected officialsPoliticisation of justiceRight to political representation22 December 2020
In its report, the Prosecutor’s Office states that the circumstances for granting pardon to those convicted (Junqueras, Romeva, Turull, Bassa, Forn, Rull, Forcadell, Sànchez, Cuixart, […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justice28 December 2020
The Court that is investigating the second case of disobedience against former president Quim Torra is prosecuting him for not having removed a banner featuring […]
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Judicial vetoes of elected officialsRights to free expression and assembly29 December 2020
The CUP councillor in the Tarragona Town Hall and three other people have been accused of the alleged crime of public disturbance due to their […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly