El Nacional

[INTERVIEW] Harrington: “Civil disobedience might be resisting the prisoners’ transfer to Madrid”

He speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese and, also, Catalan. In fact, Catalan is the language in which his new book has appeared first. Thomas Harrington, professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, has just published Una democràcia …

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Vilaweb

Amnesty International will monitor the trial against Catalan pro-independence leaders

In a letter sent to them in prison, Amnesty asks once again for their immediate release and the withdrawal of charges

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Catalan News

Foreign minister to ‘encourage’ international observers at jailed leaders’ trial

Alfred Bosch chairs first meeting with Catalan government delegates abroad after talking to MEPs in Brussels

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El Nacional

MPs from around Europe denounce Spanish state’s repression

Members of the Flanders, UK, Estonian and Danish Parliaments have, together with the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform, created the Parliamentary Network of Friendship Groups of Catalonia. The objective for the new group is to “bring together voices” …

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World Organisation Against Torture

Spain: Open Letter: End the arbitrary pre-trial detention of social leader Mr. Jordi Cuixart

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the largest network of NGOs fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and providing …

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The National

People’s Party ‘will control’ trials of Catalan leaders

A senior Spanish politician was forced to back-pedal yesterday after he said in a leaked social media message that the People’s Party (PP) would “control from behind the scenes” the …

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Daily Mirror

Pep Guardiola in prison visit to meet Catalan pro-independence leaders

The Manchester City boss used the international break to meet the jailed leaders at Lledoners Prison just outside Barcelona.

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The Conversation

Catalonia: a year on, political prisoners go unnoticed by the rest of the world

After an unofficial referendum in October 2017, the pro-independence political parties in the Catalan parliament unilaterally declared independence from Spain. In response, the Spanish government invoked Article 155 of the …

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Taipei News Network

Jordi Cuixart: I Am A Political Prisoner In Spain! (OP-ED)

For a year now I have been locked up in a cell and I look at the sky through bars. For a year now I have seen my 18-month old …

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Daily Mirror

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola reveals why he feared he could have been jailed

Guardiola has been a staunch supporter of the activists who were imprisoned following the Catalan referendum.

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