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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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 253 MarchApril 2025 + show all updates
  1. Information added about the mobile app ALERT COPS.

  2. Information added about new 24hr crisis centres for victims of rape and sexual assault in Spain.

  3. Updated list of local support organisations in the Balearic Islands.

  4. Updated list of local and regional support organisations in Spain.

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

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 Reviewed guidance for victims of rape and sexual assault in Andorra; removal of regional guides which have been replaced by a Spain-wide information pack.

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

  8. Updated list of hospitals in the guidance for Madrid

  9. Guidance reviewed and updated.

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

  11. Updated leaflet for Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla.

  12. Updated information in all consular districts

  13. Updated Catalonia and Andorra guides

  14. Updated Malaga consular district guide

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

  16. Updated information for Madrid

  17. Updated information for Madrid

  18. Changes to Alicante information

  19. Updated information for Andorra

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

  21. Updated March 2018

  22. First published.

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