The Cullera events (Spanish: sucesos de Cullera), took place on 19 September 1911, when the judge of Sueca, who had come to Cullera to repress a strike against the mobilization of workers for the war in Morocco, was killed by the crowd during the confrontations. Several people were arrested and 7 were condemned to death, based on confessions obtained under torture. As a result of the regional and international attention the cases of torture brought, the penalties were commuted to prison sentences.
According to the historians Pedro Oliver Olmo and Luis Gargallo Vaamonde, the events of Cullera brought to the foreground of the Spanish political scene the use of torture and showed that a great change had occurred in the attitude of the Spanish society, who now largely rejected the cruelty in the punishment of those who broke the law.
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