Foreign Policy
Is Spain’s Royal Family Finished?
On Aug. 3, 82-year-old Juan Carlos I, the king of Spain from 1975 to 2014, announced his decision to leave the country because of “public repercussions that certain past events …
Foreign Policy
Society for Threatened Peoples
Spyware against Catalan politicians
According to research by the daily newspapers The Guardian and El Pais, controversial spyware of the Israeli provider NSO Group has been found on the mobile phones of two Catalan …
UNPO
Online Event Discusses Spain’s Declining Democracy ahead of UPR Follow-up Session
On 15 July 2020, UNPO alongside the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) organized the International Digital Roundtable: Civil and Political Liberties at Risk in Spain?. The …
The Guardian
Phone of top Catalan politician ‘targeted by government-grade spyware’
One of Catalonia’s most senior politicians has been warned his mobile phone was targeted using spyware its makers say is only sold to governments to track criminals and terrorists.
People's Dispatch
Daniel Gallardo and the Spanish walls
Spain has a long history of jails and penitentiary centers and thousands of social and political prisoners have passed through their walls. Not all of them survived. Since ancient times, …
The Jacobin
Franco’s Stooges Still Dominate the Spanish Economy
Four decades since Spain’s transition to democracy, nostalgists for the Franco era are sharply resisting calls to topple its monuments and recognize its victims. Their fight to control historical memory …
Irish Times
CIA files reopen questions about Spain’s state terrorism
Former Spanish prime minister Felipe González is under scrutiny following the publication of CIA documents which appear to link him to death squads that hunted down Basque separatists during his …
Vilaweb
The case of the Catalan political prisoners
One year ago, the UN The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention severely condemned Spain for international human rights violation and demanded the immediate release of the jailed political leaders
The Guardian
Former Spanish king faces questions over €6.7bn Saudi rail deal
Spain’s supreme court prosecutor has launched an investigation into the role the country’s former king, Juan Carlos, played in a deal in which a Spanish consortium landed a €6.7bn (£5.9bn) …
Financial Times
Flawed data casts cloud over Spain’s lockdown strategy
This week Spain reported what should have been cause for huge celebrations: according to the official coronavirus statistics, there were no new deaths in the 48 hours to midday on …