Biggest protest in Spain against Catalan amnesty law draws 170,000

Waving Spanish flags, about 170,000 people marched through Madrid on Saturday in the largest protest yet against an amnesty law which Spain's Socialists agreed over Catalonia's 2017 separatist bid in order to form a government.

The demonstration, the latest in a series of protests in cities across Spain against the amnesty, took place two days after Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez won a four-year term with the backing of Catalan and Basque nationalist parties in return for agreeing to the law.

Holding signs that read "Sanchez traitor" and "Don't sell Spain", protesters demonstrated...