The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted a case presented by the Catalan pro-independence politician Josep Costa, and as a result Spain will have to answer for its alleged persecution of the Catalan Parliament’s Bureau.
It was almost a year ago that the former first deputy speaker of the Catalan chamber and ex-deputy for Together for Catalonia took Spain to court over the charges of disobedience that were brought against the pro-independence members of Parliament’s governing body led by then-speaker Roger Torrent, all of whom were finally acquitted at the end of 2022.
