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VilaWeb: Spain misused European arrest warrant against rapper Valtònyc
EU court rules that Spain should not have used a penal code passed three years after the events he is accused of Read here
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Vila Web: Spain’s judicial crackdown on Catalonia’s pro-independence protests: over 600 new indictments in six months
Alerta Solidària reports stepped-up repression in the wake of the protests that followed the announcement of the verdict against the leaders of the 2017 independence bid Read here
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Vila Web: Tabula rasa or the end of the European Free Alliance (EFA)?
Germany’s neo-liberal Greens are already corrupting the centre-left in the EU. Read here
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VilaWeb: Puigdemont and Comín withdraw request to join the Greens/EFA group
It was the Greens, not the EFA who do not want them. People will have to learn that beyond the environment the Green Movement, especially in Germany, is neo-liberal and socially conservative. Read here
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Vila Web: Human Rights Watch includes Catalonia in its annual report
So, Eu nations, those paragons of justice and democracy, there among the dictatorships. The report highlights the high sentences for ‘non-violent acts’ related to the Catalan referendum Read here
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VilaWeb: Catalan president on trial over yellow ribbon
It is tragic to see how the EU, as its liberal-democratic political elite loses its grasp, descends ever further towards fascism. The proceedings at Spanish courts towards Catalan leaders reminds one of the Nazi courts […]
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VilaWeb: International observers denounce massive violation of human rights at Catalan referendum trial
International Trial Watch reports infringement of liberties such as freedom of expression and peaceful assembly Read here
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Vila Web – Spain: Catalan President accused of criminal disobedience for not removing yellow ribbons
Just when you think the Spanish Social Democrats have run out of ideas to repress democracy, they prove us wrong. Read here
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VilaWeb English: Two more Catalan political prisoners join hunger strike
MEP says hunger strike by jailed Catalan leaders is terrible for Spain after visiting former speaker Carme Forcadell Read here
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VilaWeb English: How Spain uses its Constitutional Court to prevent Europe from protecting the rights of Catalonia’s political prisoners
Sànchez and Turull’s hunger strike aims to expose the hurdles laid on their path to the European Court of Human Rights Read here