Catalan Separatist and Economics lecturer at the University of St Andrews, Clara Ponsati, is scheduled to face an extradition court hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today before she faces her full extradition hearing this summer.
James Acourt has accepted extradition from Spain to the UK pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant. The former suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder case was arrested in Barcelona and will be extradited to the UK to face numerous high-level drugs charges.
A German court has ruled that the requirements to detain exiled Catalan President Carles Puigdemont are met by the European Arrest Warrant for him issued by Spain. The Court has also denied him bail, after finding that he had a “strong incentive” to attempt travel to Belgium where he may have a better chance of […]
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain for Belgium in October last year, has been arrested in Germany and is due to appear in court to decide whether he should remain in custody. He is wanted in Spain to face charges of rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds. On Friday, Spain also issued […]
The former education minister of Catalonia Clara Ponsati, appointed by former-President Carles Puigdemont in July 2017, has resigned and gone into exile in Scotland. She fled Spain for Belgium after Catalonia declared independence last October, and is wanted by Spain on charges of sedition and rebellion. A number of pro-independence politicians have already been jailed […]
Anna Gabriel, a leader of the Catalan separatist movement in Spain, has fled to Switzerland before she was due to appear at Spain’s Supreme Court as part of an ongoing investigation into sedition, rebellion, and misuse of public funds by former Catalan public officials. The Supreme Court has yet to make a decision on whether […]
On 19th July 2018, a Spanish Supreme Court judge dropped extradition requests for six politicians who were wanted in order to face criminal charges for their roles in promoting Catalan independence. The six politicians who are no longer being requested for extradition are: former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont, Professor Clara Ponsatí, Mr Antoni Comín, […]
Spain’s National Court has ruled in favour of extraditing 93 Chinese citizens to China, all of whom are suspected of involvement in Spanish gangs that defrauded people in China out of millions of pounds through telephone scams. Spain was notified about the scam over a year ago, and since that time cooperated with China to […]
A court in Spain has ruled in favour of China’s request to extradite 121 Taiwanese people, who are suspected of involvement in Spanish gangs that defrauded people in China out of millions of pounds through telephone scams. Spain has an extradition treaty with China.
A Belgian Court is due to rule on 14 December on whether former-Catalan President Carlos Puigdemont will be extradited to Spain, where he faces charges of sedition, rebellion, and misuse of public funds. Mr Puigdemont fled to Belgium following the Catalan parliament’s declaration of independence from Spain in October, stating that he would not receive […]
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