Politico
20 MEPs to watch in 2020
The European Parliament is younger, more diverse — and more divided — than ever. It has also increasingly been flexing its muscles in EU decision-making, and many MEPs are expected …
Politico
Politico
Carles Puigdemont allowed to enter EU Parliament after court ruling
The former president of the northeast Spanish region, Carles Puigdemont, and his former health minister Toni Comín were elected to the assembly in May, but have been unable to take …
Euronews
EU top court rules Catalan separatist Junqueras was MEP with immunity when jailed in Spain
The European Union’s top court has ruled that Catalan separatist leader Oriol Junqueras was covered by immunity as an MEP when he was jailed by the Spanish Supreme Court in …
Over forty organisations, among them Assemblea, denounce Human Rights violations in Spain before the UN
Most of the complaints presented in Geneva relate to protest, freedom of expression, political participation, self-determination and minority language rights in Catalonia Coinciding with International Human Rights Day and the …
Vilaweb
Young Catalans arrested in protests denounce police abuse and mistreatment
Catalonia’s Observatory on the Penal System and Human Rights (OSPDH) is monitoring the status of the twenty-eight detainees, who have complained of physical abuse by Spanish and Catalan police officers
Amnesty International
Spain: authorities ‘must reduce tensions’ in Catalonia protests
In response to the demonstrations in Barcelona and the rest of Catalonia after the Spanish Supreme Court sentenced 12 Catalan political leaders and activists, Amnesty International has called on the …
Wired
Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism. Everyone should pay attention
A pro-independence group is leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests. The catch? No one knows who runs it
Catalan National Assembly foreign branches organize a second wave of protests abroad
The aim of the Foreign Assemblies is to inform about the right to self-determination and to report violations of rights that Spain inflicts on political minorities such as Catalan people …
Counterfire
Flawed Transition: why the Spanish state is repressing the Catalan independence movement
Catalonia awaits the verdict in the trial at the Spanish Supreme Court of 12 political and civic leaders charged with ‘rebellion’ and ‘sedition’ for their part in the 1 October …
Indian Express
How Gandhian idea of non-violence is shaping political struggle in Spain
As the Gandhian moment of Catalonia is showing the world, democracy is not only about institutions, law-making and carrying on governmental administration by means of popular suffrage and elected officers.