Tag: Spanish Government

MPs CALL FOR RELEASE OF CATALAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

Women hold a Catalan pro-independence "Estelada" flag in Barcelona on October 14, 2019, after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan leaders to prison terms ranging from nine to 13 years for sedition and misuse of public funds for their role in a failed 2017 independence bid. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP)

I co-signed a letter with my colleagues on the APPG for Catalonia following yesterday’s prison sentences of Catalan political leaders.

CATALAN LEADERS JAILED

The imprisonment of Catalan leaders is an assault on democracy itself. Every nation has the fundamental human right to self-determination and the Spanish Government must respect this. A Government which resorts to brute force by attacking people for voting and imprisons leaders, is a weak Government. The people of Catalonia have time and time again […]