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 39 April 2025 + show all updates
  1. Information added on reporting a sexual assault that occurred in Spain to the police in the UK and legal mechanisms available to survivors when the perpetrator is British or a UK resident.

  2. Information added about the mobile app ALERT COPS.

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

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

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

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

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 Reviewed guidance for victims of rape and sexual assault in Andorra; removal of regional guides which have been replaced by a Spain-wide information pack.

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

  9. Updated list of hospitals in the guidance for Madrid

  10. Guidance reviewed and updated.

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

  12. Updated leaflet for Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla.

  13. Updated information in all consular districts

  14. Updated Catalonia and Andorra guides

  15. Updated Malaga consular district guide

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

  17. Updated information for Madrid

  18. Updated information for Madrid

  19. Changes to Alicante information

  20. Updated information for Andorra

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

  22. Updated March 2018

  23. First published.

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