2024 was the year in which the most death sentences were carried out in the world since 2015, when there were at least 1,634. In total, according to data published this Wednesday by Amnesty International, 1,518 were recorded last year, which represents an increase of 32% compared to 2023 (1,153 executions).

Amnesty International (AI) is one of the most active organisations in the fight against espionage through programmes such as Pegasus, which, it believes, violates human rights. In fact, the software used internationally to detect whether a cell phone is infected with this virus developed by Israeli company NSO came precisely from AI's research center. Now it has criticised the Spanish government as a result of Catalangate. In addition, after Spanish president Pedro Sánchez's appearance this Thursday in Parliament, AI published a ten-point plan to deal with the scandal.

Amnesty International continues to denounce that the secretary general of Junts and former leader of the Assemblea, Jordi Sànchez, and the president of Òmnium, Jordi Cuixart, are deprived of their freedom three years and five months after their imprisonment. This time the organisation has highlighted their situation in the annual report on human rights in the world. In the section on Spain, Amnesty warns that Sànchez and Cuixart "were still in prison" at the end of 2020 after being found guilty "of sedition in connection with the 2017 demonstrations and independence referendum." Without going into assessments, the organisation recalls the situation of the leaders of the sovereignist entities in the section that deals with freedom of expression and assembly in the Spanish state.