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[INTERVIEW] Carles Puigdemont: “There are at least two million Spaniards who want to stop being Spanish”
VilaWeb meets the exiled President for an in-depth interview about how he sees the future Catalan Republic
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Slovenian Foreign Ministry to ducate Spanish Ambassador on the Nature of the Country’s Independence
After heated reactions in Spain to the Catalan leader suggesting Catalonia take the Slovenian path to independence, the issue is expected to be discussed as the Slovenian Foreign Ministry hosts …
El Nacional
Ten days of hunger strike: insomnia and weight loss of up to 7kg
The Catalan political prisoners on hunger strike are in good physical condition “in general terms”. That was the announcement this Monday by their spokesperson, Pilar Calvo, ten days after Jordi …
Vilaweb
MEP urges Tajani to speak up following hunger strike by Catalan political prisoners
“Crimes amount to allowing people to vote to determine their own future” says Matt Carthy from Sinn Féin
The Guardian
Grave concern for electoral monitors facing jail in Spain
More than 400 academics in the fields of political science, law and other disciplines express their worries that electoral monitors in Spain are being threatened with jail over their role …
The National
Row between Spanish and Belgian ministers over Catalonia hunger strikes
Spain was heading for another diplomatic tussle with Belgium last night after the Belgian defence minister tweeted his support for Catalan political prisoners who are on hunger strike.
Catalan News
[VIDEO] Spain prevents us from going to European justice, say jailed leaders on hunger strike
President of doctors association warns of potential health ‘risk’ of protest from first day
Vilaweb
How Spain uses its Constitutional Court to prevent Europe from protecting the rights of Catalonia’s political prisoners
Sànchez and Turull’s hunger strike aims to expose the hurdles laid on their path to the European Court of Human Rights
Al Jazeera
Two jailed Catalan separatist leaders begin hunger strike
Lawyer says Sanchez and Turull are taking step to ‘raise awareness’ of unfair treatment by Spain before trial.
Financial Times
The Catalan independence campaigner in political exile in Scotland
Clara Ponsatí’s rented house in St Andrews is a far cry from her art-filled flat in Barcelona but she risks arrest if she returns there.