Jailed Catalan separatists take seats in Spanish parliament

MADRID: Five jailed Catalan separatist leaders elected to the Spanish parliament last month were temporarily released from prison on Tuesday and escorted by police to the assembly to be sworn in as lawmakers.

The Supreme Court allowed the five men, on trial for their role in Catalonia’s 2017 secession attempt, to leave jail to take up their seats. They won office in an April 28 general election that was won by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists but without a majority.