9 Catalan separatist leaders jailed over role in 2017 referendum

Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in an independence referendum in 2017. Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan President who escaped trial after fleeing Spain before he could be arrested in 2017, said the sentences handed to separatist leaders were "an atrocity".