Catalan News
Catalan parliament summons Spanish PM and ministers to Pegasus spyware inquiry commission
Madrid confirms Pedro Sánchez will not testify as he is “accountable to congress and senate” only
Catalan News
Iridia
Statement on police infiltration in social movements in recent years in Barcelona
88 organisations declare their support for the five activists bringing legal action over the infiltration of social and labour movements by a police officer from the Spanish National Police Corps in …
Vilaweb
New Bank of Spain board member resigns after accusation of supporting Catalan professor and exiled minister Clara Ponsatí
Antonio Cabrales was appointed with the support of the PP. He resigned six hours later after a media campaign by Spanish nationalists.
El Nacional
Spanish government celebrates that Catalonia’s referendum is still punished by justice
Spokesperson Isabel Rodríguez considers that Supreme Court ruling responds to a will to “penalize” the events of October 2017
Catalan News
Supreme Court lifts bans from public office for half of pardoned referendum leaders
Heads of mainstream pro-independence parties Turull and Junqueras still disqualified until 2030 and 2031
Vilaweb
Llarena’s Boomerang: The Constitutional Turn of the CJEU’s Decision
This is a first step –now national courts must make use of the space provided by Luxembourg. But it is an important step, and certainly not the one Pablo Llarena …
OHCHR
Spain: UN experts demand investigation into alleged spying programme targeting Catalan leaders
GENEVA (2 February 2023) – Spanish authorities must thoroughly investigate reports that Pegasus and Candiru spyware was used to target Catalan public figures and activists in Spain following the independence …
The European Court of Justice rules that judicial authorities may refuse to execute a European arrest warrant on the basis of deficiencies affecting the judicial protection of an “objectively identifiable group of persons”
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled that European arrest warrants can only be rejected when there is proof of a systematic failure of the judicial system or if …
Huge success of the unitary pro-independence protest against the French-Spanish summit in Barcelona
The unitary pro-independence protest, jointly organised by the Catalan National Assembly, Òmnium Cultural and Consell per la República the day of the French-Spanish summit in Barcelona has been a huge …
The Catalan National Assembly strengthens its cooperation and solidarity with the Uyghur people
Last week, the president of the Catalan National Assembly, Dolors Feliu, welcomed a delegation of the Uyghur World Congress at Assemblea’s headquarters in Barcelona The Catalan National Assembly’s president Dolors …