Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced nine of the twelve accused Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and thirteen years in prison for sedition over their roles in the region’s 2017 failed bid for independence.
The sentences were lower than demanded by the prosecution which had sought up to twenty-five years behind bars for former Catalan Vice President ORIOL JUNQUERAS.
The three other defendants in the landmark ruling were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison.
The former head of Catalonia’s regional government CARLES PUIG-DEMONT reacted sharply to the verdict, describing it as an “atrocity.”
Puigdemont was the head of the Spanish region at the time of the independence bid but was not part of this trial because he fled to Belgium, where he now lives in self-imposed exile.
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