Spain’s PM says nine Catalan separatists will be pardoned

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

Mon, 21 Jun, 2021 - 17:11

Hernan Munoz and Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said the Spanish cabinet will approve pardons for nine separatist Catalan politicians and activists imprisoned for their roles in the 2017 push to break away from Spain.

Mr Sanchez made the announcement in Barcelona during a speech set to lay the road map for the future of the north-eastern region before a few hundred civil society representatives. He said the cabinet would approve the pardons on Tuesday.