Amnesty International
The conviction of Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart for sedition violates their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and they must be immediately released, said Amnesty International today, …
The Metropolitan
The Catalan question comes from a long way back and although it’s tagged as the struggle for an independent state that is more of a symptom than a cause. The …
Vilaweb
Catalonia’s Observatory on the Penal System and Human Rights (OSPDH) is monitoring the status of the twenty-eight detainees, who have complained of physical abuse by Spanish and Catalan police officers
The goal of the event is to hold a debate on the so-called “right to decide” of all nations without a State and specifically, to examine the case of the claim for independence of Catalonia.
Catalans have shown an aspiration to become sovereign, as recognized in international law under the principle of “self-determination”. Nevertheless, this challenges the Spanish legal system. In practice, a democratic solution to the conflict in the form of a referendum seems distant and the only response from the Spanish government is the police and criminal prosecution against the independence movement. This repressive and punitive escalation by the Spanish State not only causes an increasingly intense reaction on the streets, but also involves the concern of the international community, or lack thereof, for violating political rights and basic freedoms.
This event aims to facilitate this increasingly necessary dialogue between activism and academia under the shared principle of Human Rights protection.
