useless-catalanfacts:Today, the Catalan activists Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart have been in jail
useless-catalanfacts:Today, the Catalan activists Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart have been in jail for 3 years for their role in the organization of a peaceful march against arbitrary arrests and the unlawful controls of the private homes of Catalan citizens by the Spanish police. Their arrest and unfair trial are part of the bigger scheme of Spain’s repression of Catalan independentists, which has included many other imprisonments (including the vicepresident of Catalonia, the president of Catalonia’s Parliament and many other members of the democratically-electedgovernment of Catalonia), and different amounts of repression (from jail, home arrest, to significant fines) to 2,850Catalan citizens between 2017 and summer 2020.Even though the United Nations’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the UN’s special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, and Amnesty International among others have demanded Spain to immediately release Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez and other Catalan political prisoners, they are all still in jail and will remain there for many years if nothing is done.The UN or the EU should force Spain to stop the repression of Catalan citizens and political dissidents. -- source link
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