Nine Catalan independence leaders have received lengthy prison sentences of between nine and 13 years for their part in a failed 2017 attempt to split from Spain
The group's members were found not guilty of rebellion according to Reuters. Prosecutors had sought 25 year jail terms for the rebellion charge, the AFP news agency reports.Oriol Junqueras, the former vice president of Catalonia, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and banned from holding pubic office for 13 years after being found guilty of sedition and misuse of public funds.
Read MoreFormer Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn and former territorial minister Josep Rull were both sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison and banned from holding public office, while influential grassroots activists Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, were sentenced to nine years in prison and also banned from public office. Three others -- Santiago Vila, Meritxell Borras and Carles Mundo -- were found guilty of disobedience, fined and banned from pubic office for 20 months.
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