Lledoners Prison in Catalonia the Madrilenian prison of Soto del Real
What was the place of detention for Josep Rull from Jul 2018 to Feb 2019?
Josep Rull Josep Rull i Andreu ( born 2 September 1968 ) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia . He served as the Counselor of Territory and Sustainability of Catalonia at the Government of Carles Puigdemont between 2016 and 2017 , when Spanish Rajoys Government ceased the Catalan executive following the Catalan declaration of independence amid the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution . Between 2 November and 4 December 2017 , he was jailed and again since 23 March 2018 . He was a member of the Catalan Parliament but on 10 July 2018 a Supreme Court judge suspended him as a deputy . In the 2019 general election he was head of the Together for Catalonia candidacy for the Province of Tarragona . After being elected for the Congress of Deputies , he resigned as member of the Parliament of Catalonia on 18 May 2019 . He was sworn in on 20 May 2019 , but on 24 May , by a recommendation of the Supreme Court , the Board of the Congress suspended him and other Catalan independence leaders that were elected lawmakers . Biography . Graduate in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona , he is a member of the Illustrious Bar Association of Terrassa . Local career . In 1986 he joined the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia ( JNC ) in Terrassa , and he was the general secretary of this organization between 1994 and 1998 . In 1989 he joined the political party Democratic Convergence of Catalonia . Between 1993 and 1995 he worked as a collaborator of the legal services of the Catalan Association of Municipalities and later as the head of the Institutional Relations of the Board of Waste ( 1995–1997 ) . In local elections of 2003 , he presented himself for the first time as the list head of CiU in Terrassa City Council , where he was the president of the Municipal Group of CiU in the Consorcio Egarenc . He also served as a member of the Informative Coordination Commissions with the Autonomous Organizations , General Services and Municipal Societies , in the Boards of Directors of the Municipal Institute of Culture and Sports ( IMCET ) and the Municipal Institute of Health and Social Welfare ( IMSBS ) , of the General Meeting of Eco Equip , of the General Meeting of the Municipal Communication Society of Terrassa and of the General Meeting and member of the Board of Directors of EGARVIA . A Deputy at Catalan Parliament and Counselor of Territory and Sustainability . Deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia since 1997 , during the VIII legislature he was the spokesman of the Parliamentary Group of Convergence and Union ( CiU ) and spokesman of this group to the Territorial Policy commission . In the IX legislature , in 2010 , he was elected third secretary of the chamber , position for which he was again chosen in the 10th , in 2012 . On 14 January 2016 , he became the Minister of Territory and Sustainability of the Government of Carles Puigdemont . On the same day he announced that he left the General Coordination of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia and that he would not appear to be the new leader of the party . Imprisonment . On 27 October 2017 after the Parliament of Catalonia proclaimed the Catalan Republic , the Senate approved the measures proposed by the government under the protection of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution , including the dismissal of the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and all of its Government of Catalonia , including Rull . Immediately after it was published in the Official State Gazette , followed by suspension of autonomy . On November 2017 eight members of the Catalan Government , including Josep Rull , Oriol Junqueras , Jordi Turull , Meritxell Borràs , Carles Mundó , Raül Romeva , Dolors Bassa , Joaquim Forn and Santi Vila , who resigned few weeks ago , declared before the judge from the Audiencia Nacional Carmen Lamela for a rebellion crime . The prosecutor , requested unconditional jail for all members of the Catalan Government . On 4 December he and some other members of the Government were released on bail . In the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia of 2017 he was elected deputy with the list of Together for Catalonia . On 23 March 2018 , the magistrate of the Spanish Supreme Court Pablo Llarena ordered his entry to prison , as well as for presidential candidate Jordi Turull , former Speaker of the Parliament Carme Forcadell and the regional counselors Raül Romeva and Dolors Bassa . Llarena argued unconditional provisional bail without bail for five after considering that there was a risk of leakage and reiteration of the crimes for which they were prosecuted . On 4 July 2018 , he was transferred to Lledoners Prison in Catalonia . Since then , several concentrations of support took place at the door of the prison . From 3 December until 20 December 2018 , he went on a hunger strike . Same month , the International Association of Democratic Lawyers issued a statement requesting the release of Catalan political prisoners . On 1 February 2019 , he was transferred back to the Madrilenian prison of Soto del Real , to face the trial that began on 12 February 2019 and ended and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019 . On 14 October 2019 he was sentenced to a 10 years and a half prison term and disqualification for the sedition crime .