In order to expand its international influence, the Catalan National Assembly has participated in several international events these weeks. On Thursday, 28th of November, our president, Elisenda Paluzie, visited Berlin …
This edition of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting dealt with the Right to Peaceful Assembly and the trends in legislation and practice, digital “online assemblies,” and the role of independent …
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
Open Democracy
“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought juridical answers to political problems.”
El Nacional
The European Commission has today given a reminder that European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) are “a purely judicial procedure”. Asked about the warning given by Spain’s acting deputy PM, Carmen Calvo, to the Belgian government …
El Nacional
The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Dunja Mijatovic, has demanded that Spain investigate and appropriately punish all “abusive use of force” by police which may have occurred during the protests …
Amnesty International
In response to the demonstrations in Barcelona and the rest of Catalonia after the Spanish Supreme Court sentenced 12 Catalan political leaders and activists, Amnesty International has called on the …
Wired
A pro-independence group is leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests. The catch? No one knows who runs it