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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Foreign Affairs

Spain Digs Up Its Past

Franco died. Francoism didn’t.

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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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EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform

MEPs will act as international observers in the trial against the Catalan political prisoners

A delegation of 8 MEPs members of the EU – Catalonia Dialogue Platform visited the Catalan political prisoners who are incarcerated in the Lledoners, Puig de les Basses and Mas d’Enric prisons.

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Newsweek

Opinion: It’s been a year and Catalonia is still not free

Former president Carles Puigdemont and president Quim Torra denounce Spain’s authoritarian drift and ask for a solution.

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Euronews

Catalan independence & European values: Uncut with Carles Puigdemont

Carles Puigdemont participates in the fourth edition of Uncut and explains his life in Brussels and the situation in Spain

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Open Democracy

Catalonia and Spanish nationalism

Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte conclude in this article that, in the face of certain nationalisms, there needs to be a kind of popular sovereignty that empowers citizens to take …

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