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
Vilaweb
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
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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Catalan News
Former Catalan officials ordered to pay €4.9m for 2014 vote on independence
Artur Mas and other leaders are one step closer to lose properties worth some 2 million.
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.
ARA
Who protects us from the judges?
How is it possible that the Spanish judicial system persecutes political dissidents?
Vilaweb
Marcela Topor: “Either we all make it through or we will end up together in exile”
Interview with the wife of exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont