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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Craig Meighan

Spanish court sentences former Catalan MP to four months in prison for disobedience

A FORMER Catalan MP has been sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to answer questions from a far-right party in Spain during the 2019 trial against Catalonia's independence leaders.

A Madrid court convicted Antonio Banos for disobedience committed on January 27, 2019 for not answering the questions put to him by a lawyer representing the Spanish party Vox.

Banos, who was previously the former deputy leader of pro-independence Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP), did not testify during the trial after being told he must speak in Spanish.

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