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LISTENING NOW NEWS SUMMARY NEWS SUMMARY 00:00 Elapsed time: 0 seconds 00:43 Duration: 43 seconds Barcelona (EFE).- The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has corrected the Court of Tarragona and has granted amnesty to a hacker who faced 18 years in prison for having attacked the websites of several Spanish companies and organizations opposed to the process in the months following the 1-O referendum. In a ruling, to which EFE has had access, the Catalan high court upholds the appeal presented by the defense of the investigated person, Joel M., to whom the Tarragona Court denied amnesty, and applies the law to him by considering that the crimes he committed are "clearly" linked to the independence cause. The hacker, whose home was registered by the Civil Guard when he was arrested for the attack on Spanish companies and organizations, faces a second sentence of 115 years in prison in another case derived from access to personal data in databases that he hacked. Archive image of a Civil Guard car.EFE/Marshal/File Against the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office The TSJC has now granted amnesty to Joel M., against the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office, in the case in which he was pending trial for computer attacks on Spanish companies and organizations between December 2017 and February 2018, events for which the public ministry was asking him for 18 years in prison and a fine of 10,000 euros. The court refers in its order to a computer expert from the Civil Guard included in the summary, which links the investigated person, who claimed to belong to Anonymous, "with protest activities linked to the process." A person with an Anonymous mask.EFE-EPA FILE/JAGADEESH NV Furthermore, the court argues that the accused himself, in interviews in digital newspapers, framed the attacks in "Operation Catalunya" launched by Anonymous in protest of the charges to prevent 1-O, and spread the campaign of this group of hackers. In its resolution, the Catalan high court also agrees to annul all precautionary and property measures adopted against the accused in the framework of this case and orders the cancellation of all "records, notes and records, including police records", carried out in relation to the amnestied events.EFE