Overview
- The Juzgado de Instrucción nº 5 de Bilbao imposed a no‑approach order on the eight exreligious and their legal representatives to protect five Clarissan sisters aged 88 to 101 as part of an ongoing probe into alleged coercion and degrading treatment.
- Two of the three elderly women admitted to Hospital Universitario Basurto were discharged and received into monasteries of the Federation of Clarisas, while one sister remains hospitalized awaiting discharge.
- The exmonjas have appealed the ban, their lawyer called the measure “inaudito,” and a request to visit the elder sisters was rejected by the court.
- Judicial authorities, a forensic doctor and the Guardia Civil entered the Orduña monastery on December 18, after which hospital evaluations cited insalubrious and precarious living conditions.
- Courts ruled that associations created by the breakaway group lack legal personality, excluded them from proceedings over the Derio eviction and the Orduña contract, and reaffirmed that Laura García de Viedma cannot represent the monasteries.