Lawmakers in Spain sent replica 12-week old foetuses after approving new abortion law

4 March 2023

Lawmakers in Spain sent replica 12-week old foetuses after approving new abortion law

LAWMAKERS from a number of different Spanish political parties have been receiving bags containing fake human foetuses as a form of protest against a new abortion law that recently came into force. Sources from the...

2 March 2023

Spain’s controversial consent law sees 721 sex offenders’ sentences reduced and 74 get early release

SPAIN’S legal watchdog has revealed the first official number of sex offenders who have benefitted from the government’s controversial ‘only yes means yes’ consent law. Since it came into force in October, 721 convicts have...

1 March 2023

Former deputy in ‘Mediator’ corruption case ‘went to brothel’ on day his Socialist Party denounced prostitution in Congress

THE FORMER Socialist Party deputy at the centre of a corruption scandal, Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, went to a brothel on the day that his party issued a condemnation of prostitution in the Congress of...

28 February 2023

Opposition parties pile on to Spanish government over ‘Mediator’ corruption scandal

THE LEADER of Spain’s main opposition Popular Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, on Tuesday accused the governing Socialists of covering up a corruption case that has been dubbed ‘Mediator’, and demanded that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez...

25 February 2023

Spain’s commitment to arming Ukraine drives wedge between Socialist Party and Podemos

SPAIN’S commitment to sending arms to Ukraine to assist the country in its war with Russia is threatening to drive another wedge between the governing Socialist Party and its junior coalition partner Unidas Podemos. The...

22 February 2023

Minister in Spain laughs off accusations that government is ‘legalising bestiality’

SOCIAL RIGHTS Minister Ione Belarra has laughed off accusations that the Spanish government is ‘decriminalising bestiality’. The leader of the leftist Podemos party said during an interview with YouTuber Rubén Hood that she was ‘laughing...

12 February 2023

Protestors come out in force on streets of Madrid to denounce regional government’s ‘dismantling’ of healthcare system

HUNDREDS of thousands of people came out to protest on the streets of Madrid today, to denounce what they called the ‘dismantling’ of the region’s public healthcare system by the government of Popular Party premier...

12 February 2023

Spain offers citizenship to more than 200 political prisoners freed from jail in Nicaragua

SPAIN’S Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares announced on Friday that the country is offering citizenship to the more than 200 political prisoners who were freed from prison in Nicaragua last week and flown to the...

8 February 2023

Daytime TV show in Spain’s Andalusia under fire for debating photo of minister with nipples visible through shirt

A DAYTIME television debate show in Andalusia has drawn widespread criticism, even among its own staff, after it dedicated a segment on Tuesday to debating a photo of a government minister whose nipples were visible...

25 January 2023

Five years later, 45 National Police officers could face trial for excessive force at illegal Catalan independence referendum

A TOTAL of 45 officers from Spain’s National Police force could see the inside of a courtroom for their alleged excessive use of force during the illegal referendum on independence that was held in Catalunya...

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