Public Prosecutor's opposition to J. Cuixart's 72-hour leave (30 JAN 2020)

English translation (by MS, incomplete) of the Public Prosecutor's report opposing the granting of a 72-hour prison leave to the president of Omnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, sentenced in October 2019 - after two years in pre-trial remand without bail - to 9 years in gaol.

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Nicola Sturgeon, the EU and the independence referendum [31 JAN 2020]

Cobertura de l'anunci de Nicola Sturgeon que vol un nou referèndum d'independència per a Escòcia, en vista del Brexit, i tenint present l'experiència de Catalunya.
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JEC and Clara Ponsatí MEP

On January 30 2020 the Spanish Electoral Board, while paying lip service to the CJEU sentence on Oriol Junqueras, says that Clara Ponsatí's seat will remain temporarily vacant! How did theEuropean Parliament respond the following day?
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CoE (30 JAN 2020)

22 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ("PACE") have made a written declaration: "Protecting the right to political representation in Catalonia".

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Article by French MEPs Alfonsi, Bitteau and Rivasi — [29 JAN 2020]

Here is an English rendering of an article by three French MEPs in "Solidarity with the Catalan elected representatives in prison.
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Spanish Constitutional Court to prosecute Catalan Parliament officials (28 JAN 2020)

In Spain's orgy of repressive measures against Catalonia, affecting even the immunity of MPs, here is the latest example.
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Recursos d'Empara i altres gestions davant del TC pels presos polítics (2017-2020)

L'espectacular llista amb totes les sentències, providències i interlocutòries del Tribunal Constitucional disponibles a VLEX, relacionades NOMÉS amb Jordi Turull, Jordi Sànchez i Jordi Cuixart, Carme Forcadell (i el professor Jordi Matas).
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Sentència TC - Jordi Sanchez (15 JAN 2020)

El pleno del Tribunal Constitucional desestima el recurso de amparo de Jordi Sánchez contra la denegación del Tribunal Supremo del permiso para asistir personalmente al acto de su investidura. Más votos particulares.

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Sentencia TSJC - President Torra (19 DEC 2019)

El Tribunal de la sala Civil y Penal del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña ha dictado SENTENCIA por la que condena al presidente de la Generalitat, Joaquim Torra i Pla, como autor penalmente responsable de un delito de desobediencia cometido por autoridad o funcionario público, art. 410 del Código Penal.

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Barcelona Provincial Electoral Board decision on Rt.Hon. President Torra (24 DEC 2019)

Provincial Electoral Board ruling on President Quim Torra status as MP and President (29 DEC 2019).
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George Will "ladles" a one-sided view of the Catalonia-Spain conflict (23 JAN 2020)

When I post a link to an article with a visceral attack on those striving to achieve independence (as the Americans did 244 years ago (though the Catalans trust that Spain will be prevented from outright warfare) it is basically because its arguments are so weak, and the reason for the article being written at all are so obvious, that it deserves no reply.
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Una prohibició del català, de 1896!

Un incident de prohibició del català i de l'èuscar... de 1896. Derogada a lavista de les protestes.
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Article by Thomas Harrington on the EU dimension of the Catalans' struggle to achieve statehood (23 JAN 2020)

I recommend this article to anyone interested in the Catalonia-Spain conflict,
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Article by Dave Evans, "The Rule of Lawfare" (15 JAN 2020)

Here is the link to an article by Dave Evans, "The Rule of Lawfare", which describes the Catalan independence's international strategy.

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2020 Economist Democracy Index - extract on SPAIN (23 JAN 2020)

Extracte de l’INDEX DE DEMOCRÀCIA DE The Economist per a 2019, a Espanya, que es fixa en el resultat del judici a nou líders separatistes catalans / Extract from The Economist's DEMOCRACY INDEX 2019, on Spain, which concentrates on the outcome of the trial of nine Catalan separatist leaders. 

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Letter by C. Puigdemont MEP and T. Comin MEP to colleagues (15 JAN 2020)

Here is the text of the letter sent by two of the three Catalan MEPs who, as such, enjoy immunity. The third, Oriol Junqueras, has not been let out of prison by the Spanish authorities. Moreover they are trying to strip him of the European Parliament seat he won last May.
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Antoni Bassas on the Mossos' trial (20 JAN 2020)

'On August 17 [2017], when Major Trapero reported to Rajoy, Puigdemont and Soraya, the deputy prime minister was stunned: this was the police force of [an independent] state. And a high-ranking Mosso officer said: "They will make us pay for this some day". Today is the day... '
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Article by Prof. Javier Pérez Royo on the Junqueras case: The die is not cast (in English, 12 JAN 2020)

An English translation by Dave Evans of "La suerte no está echada" by Javier Pérez Royo.
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1979 US Congress on the Basque Country and Catalonia

Not earth-shaking, but perhaps interesting to some.
This is a transcript on 1979 hearings before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the US Congress Committee of Foreign Affairs, where Catalonia and the Basque country are mentioned.
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Un Nou Estatut?

Unes consideracions sobre el rumor que corre en el sentit que l'oferta que s'acabarà fent serà un nou Estatut per substituir el de 2006, mutilat pel Tribunal Constitucional el 2010.
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