40 posts during 2017 - 2019: Article 155 and repression
18 January 2018
Tremp secondary school teacher Manel Riu, investigated under the Operation Dignity campaign, gives evidence before Tremp Examining Magistrate’s Court for alleged crimes of inciting hatred […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficeRights to free expression and assembly30 January 2018
The 30-year-old who was summoned to testify in the courts of Reus accused of duplicating the 1 October referendum websites adheres to his right to […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly9 February 2018
The former CUP MP for Sant Andreu district of Barcelona, Ivan Altimira, under investigation for an alleged crime of resisting authority, makes a statement before […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficeRights to free expression and assembly12 February 2018
The Second Examining Magistrate’s Court of Girona investigating the police violence during the 1 October referendum in Girona, Sant Julià de Ramis and Aiguaviva, begins […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticised Constitutional CourtRights to free expression and assembly18 February 2018
The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia sends a letter to Supreme Court judge, Pablo Llarena, proposing that he […]
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Politicisation of justice22 February 2018
The Second Examining Magistrate’s Court Manresa, which centralises the investigations related to the 1 Octoer referendum in the region of Bages where Jordi Pesarrodona, ERC […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly28 February 2018
The First Examining Magistrate’s Court of Figueres summons Montserrat Mindan, mayor of Roses, to give evidence for an alleged crime of disobedience having being reported […]
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Politicisation of justice5 March 2018
The Sixth Examining Magistrate’s Court of Figueres opens proceedings against city Mayor Marta Felip following a report issued by the Civil Guard; and she is […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional Court15 March 2018
The Thirteenth Examining Magistrate’s Court of Barcelona investigating the case against leaders and former leaders of the Government of Catalonia for organising the 1 October […]
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Judicial vetoes of elected officialsPoliticisation of justice20 March 2018
Dídac Rios, under investigation for an alleged crime of disobedience for duplicating the 1 October referendum website, has adhered to his right to remain silent […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly6 April 2018
The General State Prosecutor’s Office agrees to a six-month extension of the proceedings against the mayors who had collaborated with the Government of Catalonia in […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's Office10 April 2018
The Constitutional Court accepts an appeal for protection submitted by Carme Forcadell and Anna Simó against the decision taken by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Chamber […]
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Right to a fair trial16 April 2018
The Second Examining Magistrate’s Court of Manresa provisionally files the case opened against the mayor of Callús Joan Badia, for a crime of disobedience to […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly24 April 2018
Montserrat Mindan is under investigation for an alleged crime of disobedience for having signed a decree in support of the 1 October referendum l. The […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justice22 June 2018
VOX accuses the officers Lluís Ferran López, Joan Carles Molinero, Emili Quevedo and Francisco Javier Gámez, intendants Antoni Verger and Amadeu Domingo and the head […]
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Politicisation of justice3 July 2018
The Provincial Court of Barcelona partially admits the appeal by the Drets lawyers collective against the inadmissibility of the complaint against the Civil Guard for […]
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Politicisation of justice2 August 2018
The Examining Magistrate’s Court No. 13 of Barcelona, investigating the charges to the Government of Catalonia in relation to organising the referendum, asks the High […]
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Politicisation of justice19 September 2018
The judge at Examining Magistrate’s Court no. 13 of Barcelona, Juan Antonio Ramírez Sunyer, finally admits that in July 2017 he was investigating the organisation […]
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Politicisation of justice4 November 2018
Juan Antonio Ramírez Sunyer, Barcelona Examining Magistrate’s Court no. 13 judge who investigated the case against the organisers of the 1 October referendum has died. […]
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Politicisation of justice6 November 2018
Neus Lloveras and Miquel Buch testify before the examining magistrate for the case against them before the High Court of Justice of Catalonia for their […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justice26 November 2018
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia declares that it will not bring the vice-president of the Catalan Government Pere Aragonès under investigation for the […]
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Politicisation of justice18 December 2018
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Auditors, together with Societat Civil Catalana and Abogados Catalanes por la Constitución, file briefs before the Court of […]
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Court of AuditorsNeutrality of the Prosecutor's Office8 January 2019
The lawyer representing the former secretary-general of Catalonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aleix Villatoro, as well as others under investigation by the Examining Magistrate’s Court […]
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Politicisation of justice16 January 2019
The Seventh Examining Magistrate’s Court of Barcelona fines Jose Téllez, a city councillor for Guanyem Badalona en Comú, third deputy mayor of Badalona and member […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly22 January 2019
The Second Examining Magistrate’s Court of Sabadell summons Maties Serracant, city council member for the Crida andmayor of Sabadell, on 28 January to answer to […]
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Politicisation of justice28 January 2019
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia investigating judge in the case against Neus Lloveras and Miquel Buch for their role during the 1 October […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justice12 February 2019
The Prosecutor’s Office brings a complaint before the High Court of Justice of Catalonia accusing Bernat Solé, mayor ofAgramunt and an ERC member of Parliament, […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justice14 March 2019
The Association of Municipalities for Independence reports that of the 712 mayors who were to be investigated for having assisted with the organisation of the […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's Office1 April 2019
The court accepts for consideration the appeal presented by Jose Téllez, a Badalona city councillor with Guanyem Badalona en Comú and member of the CUP, […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficeRights to free expression and assembly4 April 2019
The court prosecutes them for the charges of embezzlement of public funds, document forgery, disclosure of secrets, disobedience and prevarication, and sets a joint bond […]
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Politicisation of justice8 April 2019
The Appeals Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia partially accepts the Prosecutor’s Office’s appeal against the dismissal of the disobedience case against […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justice23 May 2019
The councilor of the Court of Auditors Margarita Mariscal de Gante Mirón (former Minister of Justice in PP’s administration from 1996 to 2000), who authored […]
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Court of Auditors21 June 2019
The trial against Ivan Altimira, a former CUP city councillor in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona, and David Carmona, a member of the same […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly23 July 2019
The Examining Magistrate’s Court No. 13 of Barcelona, which is investigating current and former officials of the Government of Catalonia in connection with the organisation […]
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Politicisation of justice5 September 2019
The Sixth Examining Magistrate’s Court of Figueres agrees to proceed with the case against Marta Felip, the mayor of the city, for an alleged crime […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional Court9 October 2019
Ivan Altimira, former CUP city councillor in the Barcelona district of Sant Andreu, and David Carmona, a member of the same party, are fined 4,600 […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly9 October 2019
On the holiday for the patron of the Civil Guard, Our Lady of the Pillar, a couple days before the announcement of the verdict in […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly21 October 2019
The Prosecutor’s Office had opened proceedings against the Catalan Association of Municipalities (ACM) for an alleged crime of embezzlement in March 2018 following an investigation […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's Office31 October 2019
The Appeals Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia confirms the definitive dismissal and closure of proceedings in the case against Miquel Buch […]
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Politicisation of justice25 November 2019
Court of Auditors councilors Margarita Mariscal de Gante Mirón (former PP Justice Minister from 1996 to 2000) and author of the judgment on the organization […]
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Court of Auditors