Catalan government rejects separatists' sentences by Supreme Court Catalan President, Joaquim Torra, says the region's government and himself "reject" the sentences handed to the Catalan separatist leaders by the Supreme Court. Twelve Catalan separatist leaders, most of them members of the former regional government, were convicted by Spain's Supreme Court on Monday for their role in a controversial independence bid in 2017. Nine of them were handed jail terms and three were fined.\\n IMAGES