Spanish Leader: 9 Catalan Separatists Will Receive Pardons

Spanish Leader: 9 Catalan Separatists Will Receive Pardons
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, on June 21, 2021. Emilio Morenatti/AP
The Associated Press
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BARCELONA, Spain—Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday that the Spanish Cabinet will approve pardons for nine separatist Catalan politicians and activists imprisoned for their roles in the 2017 push to break away from Spain.

Sánchez made the announcement in Barcelona, during a speech set to lay the roadmap for the future of the northeastern region, before a few hundred civil society representatives. He said the Cabinet would approve the pardons on Tuesday.