Euronews

Catalan protesters demonstrate in front of EU parliament against exclusion of MEPs

“Where do our votes go if after what we choose, they (elected members) cannot exercise their role? To the river,” said Santiago Solsona, pointing to the riverbed in Strasbourg.

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Vilaweb

Court of Justice admits appeal of Puigdemont and Comín to be recognised as MEPs

The European Court of Justice, based in Luxembourg, has accepted the procedure only four hours after the lawyer of exiled president Carles Puigdemont and his former minister Toni Comín presented …

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Reuters

Spain told by U.N. body to free jailed Catalan separatists

Spain must release three jailed Catalan separatist leaders denied bail while facing trial for their role in the region’s failed bid for independence in 2017, a United Nations expert group …

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Vilaweb

Spanish parliament bureau suspends elected Catalan political prisoners

The legal quandry over whether to suspend the new Catalan MPs who are being tried in the Supreme Court over the independence bid resolved on Friday after the bureau of …

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Open Democracy

Catalonia: the trial will be about our ideological freedom

In December 2017, Carme Forcadell received journalists in her fine wood-panelled office where photographs on the shelves told the story of the tireless commitment of the Speaker of the Catalan …

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