Category: Catalunya – in English
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Spain, with Warsaw as its capital
(575 words, translation Kathy Arnold) Last March, the European Parliament (EP) stripped representatives (MEPs) and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and his ministers Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí of their legal immunity. Because their immunity had been revoked due to political persecution by Spain, they filed a complaint at the European General Court (EGC) and […]
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Searching for dignity
Jordi SÃ nchez and Jordi Cuixart are now in jail for 140 days because of their political ideas about an independent state of Catalonia. For the same reason, vice president Oriol Junqueras en minister Quim Forn are deprived from their liberty now during 127 days. They are accused of sedition, which implies armed violence. This article […]
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Besiege of schools The public prosecuter in Catalunya has issued an order to the Catalan police, Mossos d’Esquadra, to besiege the schools and other buldings where the voting of the referendum will take place next Sunday. Schools will have to be emptied at Friday afternoon, closed hermetically and keys will have to be handed over. […]
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5 days before the referendum to be held at 1 October about the independence of Catalonia More restrictions on freedom of expression Yesterday about ten people and private organizations were visited by the police or Guardia Civil (GC). They will have to declare at the public prosecutors office because they cloned the official websites of […]