I read with astonishment today, October 17th, 2025, on the front page, the news about the alleged injustice of imprisoning someone for 400 days for their ideas in China.
And I wonder: when will I be able to read in that same newspaper —the one with the largest circulation in our country— that the Kingdom of Spain has kept a judge imprisoned for 833 days for denouncing judicial corruption?
Of course, it is said that such an accusation is false. How could our judges possibly have money in tax havens if they belong —as we are led to believe— to the purest class of human beings? The same could be said of our prelates and of so many other powers that history has gradually revealed to be as human as the rest of us.
Alleged violation of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights,
arising from judicial reprisals against Spanish judge Fernando Presencia Crespo, who has been deprived of his liberty without a duly reasoned and notified detention order.
Background and facts:
Judge Fernando Presencia Crespo has been deprived of his liberty for more than two years and three months, without the existence of a properly reasoned and notified judicial decision, in breach of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (right to an effective remedy and a fair trial) and Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to liberty and security).
This deprivation of liberty was ordered following a judicial ruling dated July 17th, 2023, despite the fact that the Spanish National Court, by order of July 21st, 2023, declared his release. The circumstances clearly indicate that this detention constitutes a form of retaliation for Judge Presencia’s public denunciations of alleged judicial corruption, involving undeclared bank accounts in tax havens belonging to senior magistrates.
These complaints were filed with the Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT) between 2001 and 2022 against various magistrates, ..........
Although the new Article 988 bis of the Spanish Criminal Procedure Act provides a mechanism to review irregular judicial decisions, no judicial body, prosecutor, nor the General Council of the Judiciary has acted ex officio to correct this situation.
Judge Presencia himself has publicly explained his situation, which can be verified at the following link:
👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@juez_fpresencia/video/7550195606950513942