Spanish Judge Won't Release Catalan Separatist For Vote

Spain's Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from a jailed Catalan separatist leader to attend the northeastern region's parliament session, where lawmakers are due to vote on whether to make him president of Catalonia.   Judge Pablo Llarena wrote in a ruling that there was a risk that Jordi Sanchez would repeat the offenses that have landed him in jail. He ordered Sanchez kept in preventive detention without bail.   Sanchez, a prominent secessionist who was...

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