El Nacional
The third week of the Catalan independence trial started today with the last defendants taking the stand. Jordi Cuixart dismantled the public prosecutors’ arguments; they then didn’t even bother to try to …
The Telegraph
Despite holding democracy as one of its core values, the bloc’s reaction to the Catalonian calls for self-determination shows Brussels’ unwillingness to stand by this principle.
The Independent
The Spanish government’s handling of the Catalonian independence movement is worse than a human rights outrage; it is a mistake. The trial of a dozen separatist leaders on charges including …
International Commission of Jurists
As the trial of twelve Catalan separatist leaders begins before the Spanish Supreme Court today in Madrid, the ICJ warns that their trial on broadly defined offences of rebellion and, …
Open Democracy
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 …
POLITICO
Ai Weiwei and Carles Puigdemont on what it means and how it feels to be a political dissident in 2018 in this week’s EU Confidential.
El Nacional
The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, in his world report for the 20th anniversary of the UN declaration on human rights defenders, includes …
El Nacional
The Catalan political prisoners on hunger strike are in good physical condition “in general terms”. That was the announcement this Monday by their spokesperson, Pilar Calvo, ten days after Jordi …
Vilaweb
“Crimes amount to allowing people to vote to determine their own future” says Matt Carthy from Sinn Féin
The National
Spain was heading for another diplomatic tussle with Belgium last night after the Belgian defence minister tweeted his support for Catalan political prisoners who are on hunger strike.