A judge denies amnesty to about twenty activists accusing them of protesting against Miguel de Cervantes

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A judge denies amnesty to about twenty activists accusing them of protesting against Miguel de Cervantes

The magistrate of the 19th Criminal Court of Barcelona, Salvador Roig Tejedor, has denied amnesty to eighteen activists who on June 7, 2018 —at the height of the Spanish repression against the independence movement— demonstrated against an event by the Catalan Civil Society (SCC) at the University of Barcelona. According to Alerta Solidària, the judge has sided with “the delusional theory” of the prosecutor’s office of hate crimes, which argued …