Guidance

Spain: information for victims of rape and sexual assault

Information for British nationals who are victims of rape or sexual assault in Spain, including Andorra.

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Details

Includes information on:

  • medical assistance
  • the Spanish legal system
  • reporting assaults to the police

See also rape and sexual assault abroad: returning to the UK.

Updates to this page

Published 14 February 2018
Last updated 5 August 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated list of local and regional support organisations in Spain.

  2. The guidance has been fully reviewed. Links to victim support organisations in Spain and the UK have been updated.

  3. Reviewed guidance for victims of rape and sexual assault in Andorra; removal of regional guides which have been replaced by a Spain-wide information pack.

  4. Regional guides replaced with a Spain-wide information pack for victims of rape and sexual assault.

  5. Updated list of hospitals in the guidance for Madrid

  6. Guidance reviewed and updated.

  7. Updated Madrid guidance on medical examinations for victims of rape and sexual assault.

  8. Updated leaflet for Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla.

  9. Updated information in all consular districts

  10. Updated Catalonia and Andorra guides

  11. Updated Malaga consular district guide

  12. Updated RSA guides for Ibiza, Menorca, Mallorca, Las Palmas and Alicante

  13. Updated information for Madrid

  14. Updated information for Madrid

  15. Changes to Alicante information

  16. Updated information for Andorra

  17. Amendment to Madrid information including a telephone number and addition of a new organisation.

  18. Updated March 2018

  19. First published.

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