Driving without owning a license or permit in Spain in a crime. Article 384 of the Criminal Code punishes with imprisonment (from 3 to 6 months), or a fine (from 12 to 24 months), or community service (from 31 to 90 days) the act of driving without having obtained a driver’s license, or after having...Read More

Last month El Salto revealed that a police officer had infiltrated the squatted La Animosa Social Center and environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Futuro Vegetal in recent months. This is not the first time that social movements have come across infiltrations of this type: Dani, an undercover police officer, was infiltrated for three...Read More

The undersigned organisations (amongst which is our firm, Red Jurídica) strongly condemn the deportation by Spain of our client, Algerian activist Mohamed Benhalima, in the evening of 24 March 2022, despite the risks of torture and serious human rights violations he faces in Algeria, and therefore in blatant violation of Spain’s international obligations on non-refoulement....Read More

By Daniel Amelang (criminal lawyer). Published in Liberties.eu On March 14, which already seems a long time ago, the Council of Ministers approved the Royal Decree 463/2020, by which they declared a state of alarm. During this exceptional situation the executive power can limit, to some extent, our fundamental rights, but never suspend them. This is the...Read More

After the Coronavirus was labelled a global pandemic, the Spanish Government decreed a state of emergency on March 14th, 2020. Three days later, a Decree was passed (Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, on March 17th) adopting several economic and tax measures to fight the socioeconomic impact the crisis can have on the whole country. Cristina Gámez, business...Read More

As I grew up with television, the phrase “we were pending what they told us about the transistor”When the elders told us how they lived through certain historical events. Old and pretty. Now we receive the information through multiple means (radio, internet, messaging applications, TV …). And this is causing the information to be very...Read More

This is a guest post written by Alejandro Gamez Selma of Red Jurídica and one of Fair Trials’ LEAP members, in response to a previous post about popular indictments in Spain, which you can read here. Popular indictments may be the most curious institution in Spanish criminal justice. This institution, in fact, allows any person, to pursue...Read More

This July, the first section of the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court cleared six youths belonging to anarchist group Straight Edge, who had been accused of glorification of terrorism on social media. The prosecution had called for two-year prison sentences. Controversial charges and controversial detention This case was one of the many based...Read More

On October 20th, our colleague Daniel Amelang will participate in the conference “New Tools of repression against social movements and counter practices in Europe” in Torino (Italy).Read More

We are proud to announce that our colleague Silvia Beltrán will enter live on BBC News next Monday, April 30th, at 10:30, in order to discuss the conviction of ‘The Wolf Pack’ (“La Manada”), a group of men charged with gang raping a 19 year old woman during the San Fermines festivities in Pamplona.Read More