About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/cf32288c9c10f72d6b7746b275311a359809743537c21308ea527cd9

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/cf32288c9c10f72d6b7746b275311a359809743537c21308ea527cd9 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	A judge in Edinburgh on Thursday suspended extradition proceedings against a Catalan separatist wanted in Spain until the European Parliament rules on her immunity from prosecution. Madrid wants to extradite former Catalan education minister Clara Ponsati to face sedition charges in connection with a failed independence bid in 2017. But the 62-year-old academic, who teaches at St Andrews University in Scotland, has since become a member of the European Parliament, and cannot be tried. Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told Madrid had applied to the European Parliament to lift her immunity and a decision could take months. "We've agreed that it would make absolutely no sense whatsoever to keep going with this till that immunity issue is sorted," Ponsati's lawyer, Gordon Jackson, said. "We seem to be in a kind of stalemate till that gets sorted." Judge Nigel Ross agreed a full extradition hearing scheduled for May will now no longer take place. A procedural hearing in the case will instead happen on June 18. "Nothing will happen today and we will await the outcome of Spain's application to the European Parliament," he added. Ponsati became an MEP after the May 2019 European Parliament elections, winning one of the five seats redistributed to Spain after Brexit, representing the Together for Catalonia party. Outside court, another of her lawyers, Aamer Anwar, said: "Spain should have withdrawn the warrant against Clara when she became immune." Ponsati faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted in Spain. Nine other Catalan officials have previously been sentenced to between nine and 13 years for the same offences. The case against her, and fellow activists including the exiled former regional president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont, has been followed closely in Scotland. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leads the pro-EU Scottish National Party (SNP) and is pushing for a new referendum on independence following Brexit. Anwar described Thursday's ruling as a "victory against Spain, who stand accused of abusing the rule of law". sg-phz/har
schema:headline	Extradition stalemate over Euro MP wanted in Spain
schema:mentions	Edinburgh Carles Puigdemont First Minister of Scotland Member of the European Parliament European Parliament Catalonia Sedition Extradition Nicola Sturgeon Anwar Ibrahim Clara Oswald Scottish National Party Parliament of the United Kingdom Brexit Madrid Scotland Court Sheriff court Ross-shire Gordon Jackson (actor) Andrews University 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom Aamer Anwar 2017 Catalan independence referendum President of the Government of Catalonia Parliamentary immunity Francoist Spain
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2020-03-05 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	neutral sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	74 (xsd:integer)

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software