UN Partially Absolves Exiled Catalan Leader From Spanish Prosecution

 Carles Puigdemont delivers a speech during a reception in the Delegation of the government of catalonia to the EU for the Catalan day on September 6, 2022, in Brussels, Belgium. The UN body has, however, found the Spanish state to be in the right over its refusal to allow the pro-independence leader to be a candidate for the presidency of Catalonia. Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has accused Spanish authorities of removing exiled Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont from his seat as an MP without him having been convicted of a crime and without having “objective reasons foreseen by the law” to support this decision. 

In a resolution that has just come to public knowledge, the committee concludes that Spain violated Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.