Foreign Policy
Is Spain’s Royal Family Finished?
On Aug. 3, 82-year-old Juan Carlos I, the king of Spain from 1975 to 2014, announced his decision to leave the country because of “public repercussions that certain past events …
Foreign Policy
The Freedom of Speech and the Press are under threat in Spain, according to a study endorsed by the EU Commission
The Media Pluralism Monitor 2020 report calls on the Spanish authorities to repeal or modify laws that restrict freedom of expression and information, to guarantee the protection and safety of …
The Catalan National Assembly will organize a double National Day mobilization, both virtual and physical
The Catalan National Day 2020 will include a virtual action under the name #XarxaIndependència and a physical mobilization in front of Spanish administration buildings in Catalonia. Last Friday morning, the …
Society for Threatened Peoples
Spyware against Catalan politicians
According to research by the daily newspapers The Guardian and El Pais, controversial spyware of the Israeli provider NSO Group has been found on the mobile phones of two Catalan …
UNPO
Online Event Discusses Spain’s Declining Democracy ahead of UPR Follow-up Session
On 15 July 2020, UNPO alongside the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) organized the International Digital Roundtable: Civil and Political Liberties at Risk in Spain?. The …
Several international NGOs alert of human rights violations during the outcome of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of Spain
Amnesty International, Article 19, the Society for Threatened Peoples and European Language Equality Network are some of the NGOs that have raised the alarm concerning the lack of respect for …
The Guardian
Phone of top Catalan politician ‘targeted by government-grade spyware’
One of Catalonia’s most senior politicians has been warned his mobile phone was targeted using spyware its makers say is only sold to governments to track criminals and terrorists.
Ramón Grosfoguel: “Catalans are in a colonial situation”
Ramón Grosfoguel (1956) is a sociologist and an associated professor at the University of Berkeley (California). This Puerto Rican academic is a specialist in decolonisation and racism who knows Catalonia well …
People's Dispatch
Daniel Gallardo and the Spanish walls
Spain has a long history of jails and penitentiary centers and thousands of social and political prisoners have passed through their walls. Not all of them survived. Since ancient times, …
The Jacobin
Franco’s Stooges Still Dominate the Spanish Economy
Four decades since Spain’s transition to democracy, nostalgists for the Franco era are sharply resisting calls to topple its monuments and recognize its victims. Their fight to control historical memory …