MADRID: Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued international arrest warrants for three former Catalan regional government officials who fled abroad after the failed independence bid of 2017, court documents showed.
The third warrant for the arrest of Clara Ponsati on grounds of sedition has been sent to Scotland, with her lawyers saying she would appear in an Edinburgh court on Thursday. He fled after a short-lived declaration of independence on Oct 27, 2017, just a few weeks after his regional government staged a secession referendum that was banned by Madrid.Five other pro-independence leaders escaped with him and are living variously in Belgium, Switzerland and Scotland.
Of those that stayed in Spain, 12 were put on trial on a string of charges, including rebellion, with the Supreme Court convicting nine of them on the lesser charge of sedition and jailing them for between nine and 13 years.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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