Interview with Alessandro Gamberini (September 14 2019)

Extracts of interview with Alessandro Gamberini, lawyer of activist Carola Rackete, a guest of Foreign Friends of Catalonia (English translation by M. Strubell)
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ELEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION on Catalonia

Here is the text of the ELEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION on Catalonia, proposed by Plataforma per la Llengua and adopted by the Plenary, 3rd November 2018

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European Court of Human Rights: judgment on Selahattin Demirtaş M.P.

Press Release dated 20 November 2018  on the ECHR judgment ordering the termination of the pre-trial detention Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş.
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Nine reports on the violation of fundamental rights by Spain in its conflict with Catalonia (2017-2019)

This post provides links to nine detailed reports on the violation of fundamental rights and freedoms by Spain in Catalonia, since 2017.

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1
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Should politicians be prosecuted for statements made in the exercise of their mandate?
Introductory memorandum
Rapporteur: Mr Boris Cilevičs
October 1 2019
https://www.ara.cat/2019/10/02/ajdoc35-2019-declassified.pdf

2.
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (United Nations)
Opinions adopted at the 84th session (24 April-3 May 2019)

No. 6 (SP): https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/Opinions/Session84/A_HRC_WGAD_2019_6.pdf

No. 12 (SP): https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/Opinions/Session84/A_HRC_WGAD_2019_12.pdf

3.
More than 400 academics in the fields of political science, law and other disciplines express their worries that electoral monitors in Spain are being threatened with jail over their role in Catalonia’s independence referendum. December 2018.

• https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/07/grave-concern-for-electoral-monitors-facing-jail-in-spain

(See also http://estudiscatalans.blogspot.com/2017/09/repression-election-board.html and item 5 below)

4.

The trivialisation of the crimes of rebellion and sedition. 

November 2018 

http://collectiupraga.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Articulo_-La-banalización-de-los-delitos-de-rebelión-y-sedición_EN.pdf

117 signatories: http://collectiupraga.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Signants-manifest.pdf

5.

‘Col·lectiu Praga’ – University Lawyers For the Right to Decide 

"We hereby reject the accusation made by the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office’s against members of the Electoral Council of Catalonia..."

28 October 2018.

http://collectiupraga.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PRAGA_EN.pdf

6.
19 specific cases of violations of rights.
https://www.servidorscat.cat/altres-danys/danys-drets-fonamentals/?pdf=659

7.
Síndic de Greuges de Catalunya (Ombudsman of Catalonia).
1st edition: May 2018.
Report: THE VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ARISING FROM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REACTION FOLLOWING OCTOBER 1, AND APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 155 OF THE CONSTITUTION. http://www.sindic.cat/site/unitFiles/5324/Report%20on%20violation%20of%20fundamental%20rights%20and%20freedoms%20arising%20from%20October_1_eng.pdf

8.
600 jurists from Catalonia and abroad endorse a Complaint to the ECHR.
February 2018.
This report is promoted by the Col·lectiu Praga (Praga Group)1. Subscribed by 650 lawyers, the report aims to bring to the attention of the Commissioner of Human Rights of the Council of Europe violations of the 1950 European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). Such violations of human rights took place in the run-up to the referendum on independence held in Catalonia, on 1 October 2017, on the referendum day itself, and in the aftermath of the referendum.
http://collectiupraga.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Denúncia-CEDH.-26-2-2018-Anglès.pdf

9.
Report on the political situation and the violation of fundamental rights in Catalonia.
March 2017. 

• http://estudiscatalans.blogspot.com/p/report2017.html

Síndic de Greuges / Ombudsman on Violation of Human Rights in Catalonia

Ombudsman of Catalonia.

Official English version of part 4 of "VULNERACIÓ DE DRETS FONAMENTALS I LLIBERTATS PÚBLIQUES EN OCASIÓ DE LA REACCIÓ PENAL A L’1-O" ("VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC FREEDOMS AT THE OCCASION OF THE CRIMINAL INITIATIVES AFTER 1 OCTOBER 2017")(44 p.). May 2018

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Col.lectiu Praga: Human Rights Violations in Catalonia (October 2017)

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This 43-page report on Human Rights Violations in Catalonia can be viewed by clicking below on "Més informació"

Barcelona, December 29, 2017

The present complaint, carried out by Col·lectiu Praga, is signed by 609 Jurists to demonstrate to the various International Mechanisms for the
Protection of Human Rights, in particular the United Nations system, Human
Rights Violations, recognized in Declarations, Pacts, Treaties and  International Resolutions, which took place on the occasion of the celebration on October 1, 2017 of the referendum on self-determination in Catalonia, convened under the protection of Catalan Law 19/2017, of 6 September, of the referendum on self-determination.

This complaint is not intended to make an exhaustive account of the events,  nor to denounce all the infringements of rights that occurred, but to expose the major clash between the tenants of Democracy and the Law of the Spanish State.

In this regard, we consider that there is sufficient evidence - some of which is
presented in this document - to support an independent and comprehensive investigation into the Violation of Human Rights that took place in Spain on October 1, 2017, especially the Rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, of the Right to the Physical Integrity, the Right to have a fair and  public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal in the determination
of the rights and obligations and of criminal charges against anyone,  recognized and protected by international law....