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The story goes as follows. A little Syrian girl from a refugee family in Jordan needed very complex and delicate craniofacial surgery. In Jordan, after the necessary assessment, the doctors did not dare perform such a complex operation. Then, in March 2016, the search began for a hospital and doctors who would accept this young […]

 The Spanish legal system establishes a prison sentence as well as the penalty of special ineligibility for public employment or for holding public office and that of loss of the right to stand as a candidate for those guilty of terrorism offences. In this latter instance, it involves the inability to be elected in a […]

The Ombudsman of Spain (Defensora del Pueblo), Soledad Becerril, warned of the difficulties involved in there being an interim Government for a long-drawn-out period, a situation that is “detrimental to the interests of the general public”. “The institution noted these difficulties”, the Ombudsman stated, after pointing out that -over the last few months- the central […]

The Ombudsman has handed in to Parliament a summary of activities for the first six months of the year, the NPM (National Torture Prevention Mechanism) report for 2015 and the paper “Asylum in Spain: international protection and the resources of the intake system”. Summary of the first six months In the period from January to […]