Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders t...
MADRID - Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the region’s failed bid for independence in 2017.
The three other defendants in the landmark ruling over a banned referendum and short-lived independence declaration were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison. All defendants were acquitted of the most severe charge, rebellion. The main questions are how separatists will react to the verdicts, whether the promise of peaceful protests holds and whether and how the reputation of both Spain and the separatist movement could be affected.
“The only verdict we will accept is acquittal,” the center-right separatist party of Catalonia’s former leader, Carles Puigdemont, said in a video.
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