With the Spanish Congress recently voting in favour of proposals to crack down on trafficking and pimping and punish those paying for sex work, we look into what Spain's current prostitution laws are and what could soon change.
Spanish sex workers have the right to form their own union, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, overturning an earlier court decision ordering the dissolution of Spain's first such labour organisation.
All brothels in the Castilla La Mancha region will shut down this Sunday, as it become first Spanish region to bring in a blanket ban to reduce the spread of Coronavirus.
In what has been deemed an obvious move to attract female voters, Spain’s PSOE has vowed to prohibit prostitution in the country if their leader Pedro Sánchez is reelected on April 28th.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has made drafting a new law to tackle prostitution a flagship policy of his first term. The 50-page policy paper reportedly emphasizes "decriminalizing victims" and aims "to abolish prostitution" in Spain.
Spain's National Court has ruled against the creation of the first sex workers union that left the feminist Socialist government red in the face on discovering its own administration had approved it.
Spain's first sex workers union on Friday asked for "the same labour rights" for its members as other workers,
criticising the Socialist government for wanting to get rid of it.
Spain's fiercely anti-prostitution Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was left red in the face Thursday after it emerged a
sex workers union was approved by his own administration.
The Catalan town of Gavà wants to stamp out prostitution from its streets and snitch on those who keep the sex trade going by sending fines to their family addresses.
Police have freed 16 women from Nigeria who were forced into prostitution on the streets of Zaragoza after being lured to Europe with the promise of a better life.
Spanish and Finnish police, with the help of European law agencies, have arrested 24 members of a suspected prostitution ring preying on young Nigerian women,, Europol said Thursday.
Spanish police said Monday that they had broken up a network that was forcing transsexuals into prostitution, after luring most of them to Spain from Venezuela.
Police have broken up a Bulgarian gang that sought the "total control" of prostitution in the upscale beach resort of Marbella on southern Spain's Costa del Sol, Spanish police said Tuesday.
Spanish police on Saturday announced they
had smashed a high-end prostitution ring whose catalogue of services included
offering the sale of an teenage girl's virginity.
A new brothel has opened in Barcelona that offers men the chance to fulfil all their fantasies – as long as their fantasies involve hyper-realistic silicone dolls.
Police said on Sunday they had rescued 29 Chinese women who had been drugged and forced into prostitution in hotels and nightclubs across Spain in an operation that smashed a human trafficking ring.
Barcelona’s activist mayor Ada Colau said on Thursday that she wants to reduce sanctions against sex workers walking the streets as well as against skateboarding youths.
Spanish National Police announced on Monday that they broke up a ring of human traffickers who used juju voodoo and animal sacrifices to coerce women into prostitution.
Police in Madrid have arrested six men thought to be members of a prostitution ring formerly led by an infamous Romanian clan leader known as 'Pig's Head'.
Police have broken up a prostitution ring offering the services of over 400 women, some of them minors, and have arrested 29 people, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
A former executive with Spain's main copyright organization has been sentenced to prison for spending €40,000 ($50,000) in brothels using a corporate credit card, with a judge describing as "nonsense" the man's claims that the visits were work-related.
