The Spanish parliament’s justice committee approved an amended draft for the remission of sentences for Catalan separatists on Thursday. At the same time, the planned amnesty law, which the governing Socialists and two separatist Catalan parties – Together for Catalonia (Junts), and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) – had agreed on the previous evening, was forwarded to the lower house. It will be discussed and voted on there for the first time on Thursday of next week. The parliamentary process is likely to take several months. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised the separatists the am…