Assemblea denounces human rights abuses against the Catalan people at the United Nations European Forum on national minorities

The Catalan National Assembly (Assemblea) has taken part in the United Nations European Regional Forum on conflict prevention and the protection of the human rights of minorities on the 12 …

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Poland’s defence in its legal challenge to the EU: “Spain did the same” “

“Spain did the same, and that was accepted. So why punish us?” That is the argument which the Polish government is now making in its head-on clash with the European Union. Last Thursday, …

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Vilaweb

Gonzalo Boye: “The EU will have to call for sanctions against Spain”

Pablo Llarena is the Spanish judge who has been pursuing the politicians in exile for four years. Since the end of October 2017, lawyer Gonzalo Boye has been engaged in …

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Catalan News

Italian judge suspends Puigdemont’s extradition process pending EU court decisions

The court in Sassari, Sardinia, has suspended Carles Puigdemont’s extradition procedure pending EU court decisions on his immunity and on the Luxembourg court’s response to the questions raised by Spain’s …

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Vilaweb

Thousands march in Catalonia in remembrance of the 2017 independence referendum

Thousands are marching in Catalonia on Saturday to commemorate the referendum of 1 october 2017 and to call for independence. One of them has begun in Sant Julià de Ramis …

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#CatalanWeek2021: international conferences and awareness raising events on the 4th anniversary of the Catalan referendum

Kickstarted by the foreign branches of the Catalan National Assembly, the #CatalanWeek will last from October 5rd to the 14th, and will include off-line as well as on-line events, in …

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BBC

Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont arrested in Italy

Exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has been detained in Italy on a Spanish arrest warrant. Spain has accused him of sedition for a breakaway independence referendum in 2017 that …

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Green Left AU

Catalan National Day: Huge turnout by a movement that refuses to die

The river of independence supporters that flooded central Barcelona gave the lie to fears that the Catalan movement had been mortally wounded by ongoing Spanish state legal repression, 18 months …

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Former Catalan political prisoner Jordi Sànchez takes his case to the European Court of Human Rights against Spain

The Catalan National Assembly backs its former president Jordi Sànchez’s appeal of his 9-year prison sentence for the crime of sedition, which he received for his role as a civil …

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Reuters

Thousands of Catalans rally for independence in Barcelona

Thousands of Catalans chanted, sang and waved flags as they marched through Barcelona on Saturday, calling for the region’s independence from Spain. The march, organised by the grassroots Assemblea Nacional …

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