Spain to Formally Pardon 53 Women Who Were Locked up by Franco Regime

Spain to pardon 53 women imprisoned under Franco regime

Spain has announced it will formally pardon 53 women who were imprisoned under Franco’s dictatorship for “moral” or ideological reasons, a move aimed at recognising their suffering and officially acknowledging them as victims of Francoist repression. The decision affects survivors of institutions that detained young women for behaviour deemed socially unacceptable during and after the Spanish… Source

Spain to formally pardon 53 women who were locked up by Franco regime

The women were incarcerated by a collection of institutions run by religious orders, echoing Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

Spain to Pardon 53 Women Imprisoned by Franco Regime

Spain will formally pardon 53 women who were imprisoned as adolescents under the Franco dictatorship for being “fallen or in danger of falling,” part of thousands detained by the Board for the Protection of Women. The board, run by religious orders and overseen by Carmen Polo, wife of dictator Francisco Franco, targeted girls for behaviours deemed immoral by the Catholic Church, including being lesbian, writing about sexuality, or simply being “…