New delay of the Spanish Constitutional Court in appeal resolution in cases of pre-trial detention
Date of article: 02/10/2019
Daily News of: 09/10/2019
Country: 
Spain
- Catalonia
Author: Regional Ombudsman of Catalonia
Article language: en
02/10/2019
The imminent judgement of the Spanish Supreme Court in Special Case 20907/2017 obliges the Catalan Ombudsman to warn of the possible violation of rights taking into account the intervention of other high courts
1. The Spanish Constitutional Court has pending for more than a year the resolution of several appeals in which people deprived of liberty in the application of pre-trial detention without bail, which they consider not fitting to the Spanish Constitution and violating of their right to freedom. The precautionary measures were issued at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018.