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Raül Romeva
1971
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- politician
Raül Romeva i Rueda (born 12 March 1971) is a Catalan politician from Spain and a former Member of the European Parliament with the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, part of the European Greens.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Centre Penitenciari dels LledonersDates unknown
Biography
Raül Romeva i Rueda (born 12 March 1971) is a Catalan politician from Spain and a former Member of the European Parliament with the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, part of the European Greens. He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. In the Catalan parliamentary election of 2015 he led the pro-Catalan independence electoral list Junts pel SÃ. On 14 January 2016, he was named Minister for External and Institutional Relations, and Transparency in the Catalan Regional Government under President Carles Puigdemont, before his role was revoked by the Spanish government on the 27 October 2017, as part of the application of the constitution's article 155 during the Catalan crisis. Romeva spent almost 4 years in prison from 2017 to 2021, and in 2019 was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for sedition along with other members of the Puigdemont government. He was pardoned in 2021 and freed from prison.
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