Catalan scholastic to battle Spanish removal from Scotland

Glasgow, United Kingdom - The political issues overwhelming the Spanish district of Catalonia will visit Scottish shores on Thursday when Clara Ponsati is booked to hand herself into local police.

The 62-year-old bespectacled teacher at Scotland's St Andrews University is needed by Spain on a charge of subversion for her job in Catalonia's October 2017 autonomy choice - which the Spanish state considered unlawful.

Ponsati was expected to submit to Scottish specialists a week ago, however, errors with her European Arrest Warrant (EAW) postponed her case.

The previous Catalan instruction serve was first captured by Scottish police in March 2018 after an EAW was put together by Spain, which it pulled back four months after the fact. Following the jailing of nine ace freedom figures from Catalonia a month ago, in any case, the warrant for Ponsati, who denies bad behavior, was reestablished.

Aamer Anwar, Ponsati's attorney, told Al Jazeera he accepted the warrant was pulled back a year ago on the grounds that the Spanish specialists were unsure of winning in their activity. In any case, after the Catalan secessionists were given sentences totaling right around 100 years between them, he said that Madrid was presently utilizing this to show that a "reasonable preliminary was led which pursued fair treatment" so as to legitimize the present removal demand for his customer.

In any case, Anwar has additionally asserted that the Catalan is probably not going to get a reasonable preliminary in Spain, considering the detainment of the nine chiefs and the remarkable warrant against Ponsati "politically roused".

"On the off chance that she's removed and indicted, at that point, she could get a sentence of as long as 15 years," said Anwar, who expressed that Spain's intention was to just "squash the freedom development".

"Were she to be removed it would be crooked and incongruent with her human rights."