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Casualties and losses. The sentencing of nine Catalan independence leaders in a 2019 trial by the Supreme Court of Spain triggered protests in Catalonia. They were convicted of sedition and other crimes against the Spanish state for their role in the organization of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
Spain was an initial signatory on 11 May 2011 of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CETS No. 210), known as the “Istanbul Convention”, which was ratified by Spain on 10 April 2014 and came into effect on 1 August 2014. The Istanbul Convention is a legally-binding ...
In 2020, Spain had a homicide rate of 0.64 per 100,000 population, making it the 6th lowest among 30 European countries [2] and lower than the European Union average of 0.9. There were a total of 298 homicides in Spain in 2020. [5][1] Many terrorist attacks have occurred in Spain, the most deadly of which was the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Spain since 2003 has officially counted some killings of women as “crimes of gender violence” — but, until now, only when there was proof that the victim and the killer had been or were in a ...
Risking censure from voters angry at decades of violence in Spain from the now-defunct Basque armed group ETA, Sanchez also met with Bildu's spokesperson in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, and her ...
The 2023–2024 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of then-acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez 's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont 's Together for Catalonia (Junts ...
The La Manada rape case, also known as the wolf pack case, [1][2] began with the gang rape of an 18-year-old woman on 7 July 2016 during the San Fermín celebrations in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The case drew intense public scrutiny as it called into question the definition of rape under Spanish law. Five men, including a member of the Civil ...
The Basque conflict, also known as the Spain–ETA conflict, was an armed and political conflict from 1959 to 2011 between Spain and the Basque National Liberation Movement, a group of social and political Basque organizations which sought independence from Spain and France. The movement was built around the separatist organization ETA, [6][7 ...