https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Women's groups and legal experts are calling on Spain to change its laws after five men accused of gang-raping a 14-year-old girl were convicted of sexual abuse rather than a more serious charge. https://www.thelocal.es/20191101/outrage-after-barcelona-court-convicts-gang-rape-accused-on-lesser-charge Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:33:58 +0100 outrage-after-barcelona-court-convicts-gang-rape-accused-on-lesser-charge A Spanish doctor faces trial in Sweden, charged with sexually abusing 52 child patients, including several counts of aggravated rape, between 2015 and 2017. https://www.thelocal.es/20180912/spanish-doctor-charged-with-child-sex-abuse-in-sweden Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:47:19 +0200 spanish-doctor-charged-with-child-sex-abuse-in-sweden After 10 days in custody, the Catalan separatist leader has been officially released after German judges dismissed the charge of rebellion, but Carles Puigdemont could still face extradition on different grounds. https://www.thelocal.es/20180406/carles-puigdemot-to-walk-free-after-schleswig-holstein-ruling Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:58:10 +0200 carles-puigdemot-to-walk-free-after-schleswig-holstein-ruling Spain's National Court is hearing the case of a man accused of trying to sell Isis T-shirts online, days before the start of another trial over the same charges. https://www.thelocal.es/20170619/trial-begins-for-man-accused-of-selling-isis-t-shirts-again Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:43:20 +0200 trial-begins-for-man-accused-of-selling-isis-t-shirts-again The Spanish Supreme Court ordered the government to pay a woman €60,000 after finding she had been kept in prison over a murder that judges said never happened. https://www.thelocal.es/20160524/woman-imprisoned-542-days-over-murder-that-didnt-happen Tue, 24 May 2016 13:32:12 +0200 woman-imprisoned-542-days-over-murder-that-didnt-happen Spanish taxi drivers are calling for a "precautionary" suspension of one of Spain’s most successful new startups, days after it secured a multi-million euro funding. https://www.thelocal.es/20151019/taxi-drivers-call-on-spanish-courts-to-suspend-cabify Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:58:43 +0200 taxi-drivers-call-on-spanish-courts-to-suspend-cabify A student in Spain who had one of her toes transplanted to replace a thumb damaged in a traffic accident has won compensation of €75,300 because the injury shattered her dreams of becoming a hairdresser. https://www.thelocal.es/20150618/toe-thumb-girl-wins-75-thousand-for-ruined-future Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:00:58 +0200 toe-thumb-girl-wins-75-thousand-for-ruined-future A Spanish High Court judge has agreed to hear a lawsuit against Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram and its leader Abubakar Shekau for crimes against humanity and terrorism. https://www.thelocal.es/20150528/spanish-judge-opens-case-against-boko-haram Thu, 28 May 2015 17:58:36 +0200 spanish-judge-opens-case-against-boko-haram A Spanish judge Wednesday ordered Barcelona football club to stand trial over alleged tax fraud linked to the signing of Brazilian star striker Neymar. https://www.thelocal.es/20150513/barca-fc-to-stand-trial-over-neymar-signing Wed, 13 May 2015 19:19:45 +0200 barca-fc-to-stand-trial-over-neymar-signing Spain's foreign minister announced that Spain will propose that the United Nations create an international court specialised in terrorism crimes. https://www.thelocal.es/20150414/spain-to-propose-that-un-set-up-terrorism-court Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:48:17 +0200 spain-to-propose-that-un-set-up-terrorism-court It could be the line-up of a state banquet instead of a court bench, but if the defence lawyers in the Nóos case get their way then half of Spain’s Bourbon family as well as other European royals could be called as witnesses. https://www.thelocal.es/20150408/kings-to-hold-court Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:11:28 +0200 kings-to-hold-court A judge in Benidorm has given a mother a one year suspended sentence for attempting to sell her baby to a childless couple in 2008. https://www.thelocal.es/20150203/mother-tries-to-sell-baby-for-5000 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:04:00 +0100 mother-tries-to-sell-baby-for-5000 Updated: The government of Spain's Catalonia region put itself on a collision course with Madrid on Tuesday by vowing to press ahead with a symbolic independence vote this weekend despite a court-ordered block. https://www.thelocal.es/20141104/spains-constitutional-court-votes-to-ban-catalan-vote Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:43:00 +0100 spains-constitutional-court-votes-to-ban-catalan-vote Two years after five young women were killed in Madrid Halloween party disaster, the mother of one victim makes a passionate plea for justice as the case judge also slams Spain’s court system. https://www.thelocal.es/20141031/halloween-tragedy-jail-terms-an-insult-mum Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:01:00 +0100 halloween-tragedy-jail-terms-an-insult-mum A British court on Friday ruled against the extradition to Spain of an ETA militant because it found the European arrest warrant against him to be "invalid". https://www.thelocal.es/20141018/uk-court-rejects-extradition-for-eta-militant Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:50:00 +0200 uk-court-rejects-extradition-for-eta-militant An internal police memo in the Spanish city of Zaragoza has infuriated officers by ordering them to improve their personal cleanliness, cover their tattoos and stop wearing earrings because local judges have complained of the "difficulty in telling the police and the accused apart" in court. https://www.thelocal.es/20140918/judges-cant-tell-scruffy-cops-from-criminals Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:31:00 +0200 judges-cant-tell-scruffy-cops-from-criminals