{
  "id": 345151,
  "title": "Fergie Chambers, the millionaire activist detained in Ibiza: “I am a defender of human rights”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/fergie-chambers-el-activista-millonario-detenido-en-ibiza-soy-un",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-09T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/espana/2026-08-09/fergie-chambers-el-activista-millonario-detenido-en-ibiza-soy-un-defensor-de-los-derechos-humanos.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "July 10. A foreign couple aiming to settle in Ibiza are driving along a rural road in the north of the island. They are looking for a school for their child and that day they are heading to visit one. He is James, Fergie, Chambers, who inherited a fortune from one of the richest families in the US, the owners of the Cox group (focused on telecommunications), which bills $20 billion a year. He is 41 years old, a pro-Palestinian activist and has defined himself as a Marxist-Leninist and revolutionary. She is Stella Schnabel, actress, producer and daughter of the filmmaker who directed, among others, Before Night Falls, the film that earned Javier Bardem an Oscar nomination in 2001. “Suddenly,” Stella Schnabel tells EL PAÍS in a hotel in Madrid, “five cars appeared: three in front and two behind. They didn't have police badges. Three women and three men got out. They said they were National Police agents and that they had to arrest Fergie for a money laundering charge. They took him immediately. I was totally in shock, although with the political climate in the United States that was something that was always on my mind”.",
  "summary": "The American's lawyers, led by Baltasar Garzón, denounce a “political persecution” by Trump because of his support for Palestine. The Government will have to decide whether to extradite him.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}