February 17 – Multiple field visits are conducted by Human Rights Watch to large emergency centers for unaccompanied migrant children in the Canary Islands.[4]
March
March 7 – Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities.[5]
April 24 – Around 60,000 people march in Madrid, with parallel demonstrations elsewhere in Spain and abroad, in support of Judge Baltasar Garzón, calling for justice for victims of Francoist Spain crimes.[7]
May
The government rejects several peer recommendations during its Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council, including proposals to improve safeguards for terrorism detainees, and to establish an independent police complaints body.[3]
Judge Baltasar Garzón is suspended from judicial office, and faces trial for investigating alleged enforced disappearances during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist period.[3]
July 10 – Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, according to organisers, and 56000 demonstrators, according to Spanish protesters-counting specialized company Lynce, demonstrate in central Barcelona demanding greater autonomy for Catalonia within Spain.[9]Spain wins the 2010 FIFA World Cup
August 19 – Forty people are injured after a bull leaps into a crowd in Tafalla, Spain; the bull is killed.[15]
September
September 27 – 95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella, appear in court in Málaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials.[16]
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