Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says his government will pardon the jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards protest in Madrid against government plans to pardon 12 Catalan politicians who were convicted over the region's failed independence bid in 2017, a move the demonstrators see as a threat to national unity.

Trump is reportedly prepared to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on Tuesday, before leaving the White House on Wednesday.

The outgoing US president was reportedly preparing to issue around 100 pardons for others.

A retired FBI agent and two former ICoCA board members express outrage over President Trump’s pardons for Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraqi civilians.

Trump has essentially pardoned the ruling class criminals -- all the people involved in fraud and the financial crisis in 2008, an American political commentator has said.

An Iraqi lawmaker calls on the Baghdad government to take Trump’s pardons for Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraqi civilians to an international court as well as the Security Council.

US President Donald Trump grants pardons and sentence commutations to more senior allies in his second clemency spree in just two days.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a flurry of pardons and commutations to a slew of controversial figures with ties to his administration.

President Trump has issued a series of pardons including for two people involved in the Russia probe and 4 Blackwater contractors.