Overview

• Spain’s Council of Ministers approved pardons for Francisco Javier Aijón, known as Javitxu, and Adrián Latorre, who have spent a year and three months in the Zuera prison.
• Families said they expect the two to be released next week once the measure is formalized.
• Two co-defendants, Imad M. B. and Antonio Daniel L. D., remain in prison on the same convictions.
• The case arose from clashes around a January 17, 2019 protest in Zaragoza against a Vox rally that resulted in injuries to six officers and convictions for aggravated public disorder, assault on authority and injuries.
• The Supreme Court previously reduced adult sentences to four years and nine months, and while the pardons commute prison time, close to €200,000 in fines and civil liability largely remain, according to the platform supporting the defendants.