An article by @GemmaLinan, translated into English, on Spain's on-going repression of the #Catalan independence movement through the courts (25 JULY 2021)

Journalist Gemma Liñán explains how Spain's judicial strategy against the process is crumbling because of the lack of evidence. 

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Twitter thread by Albert Royo (20 JUL 2021)

A dramatic call by one of the 30+ politicaians and high ranking officials of the Government, who have to pay exorbitant sums of money ahead of the final decision of the highly politicized "Tribunal de Cuentas", equivalent to Courts of Auditors elsewhere, though with very few economists and accountants among its members, who include at least one former minister. 

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Prosecutor's press communiqué after arresting 9 Catalans on 23 September 2019

This is an English translation of the National Court prosecutor's press communiqué after arresting nine Catalans on 23 September 2019. There have been widespread protests and several have since been released.
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Felip Segura, charged with a hate crime and severe insults

Felip Segura @FelipSegura has been charged with four offences for a tweet (Decembe 14 2017) and faces up to four years in gaol. And bail of €145.000. Here is his scandalous case.

  

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2017 CPDT Report: 'October 1 was a "Laboratory of repression"'

This post contains an unofficial English translation of the 2017 Report of the Coordinating Committee for the Prevention and Denunciation of Torture (CPDT) in Spain. I hope the Committee doesn't mind!

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"And in wanting to be a republic, we have learned to be a people", by David Fernandez (6/10/2017)

Even as I translated this - at times almost poetic - reflection on what happened last Sunday, my eyes watered several times. Noone, and certainly not me, can describe better the intense, unique combination of feelings that rushed, flowed, hammered through millions of Catalans that day, October 1st, the day of Catalonia's Referendum Self-determination that the Spanish government did all in its power to prevent taking place. David Fernàndez's analysis is, to my mind, brilliant; otherwise I wouldn't have translated and posted it.

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