Barcelona mayor visits jailed Catalan leaders
Barcelona mayor Ada Colau visited jailed pro-independence Catalan leaders in the Lledoners prison on Friday. This is not the first time Colau has gone to...
Catalan politicians in jail
Court wants jailed leaders transferred to Madrid
Spain’s Supreme Court has ordered for the nine pro-independence leaders jailed in Catalan prisons to be transferred to Madrid for the last week of January, in...
Valls attacks literature award winner over ‘political prisoners’
Manuel Valls, a candidate to be mayor of Barcelona, attacked a Catalan literature award winner on Sunday evening after he criticised the imprisonment of pro-independence political...
Jailed leaders to defend ‘legitimacy’ of referendum
The Catalan political leaders in jail are ready to defend the ‘legitimacy’ of the 1 October 2017 independence referendum and will not hide the fact...
Six Catalan defendants transferred to lower court
Spain’s Supreme Court has transferred the case of six Catalan politicians accused of helping organise last October’s independence referendum to a lower court, following their appeals....
Protests against Spanish cabinet meeting
Catalan pro-independence groups blocked roads in the region on Friday to protest a planned cabinet meeting in Barcelona chaired by a Spanish Prime Minister Pedro...
Puigdemont files UN rights complaint against Madrid
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said Thursday that he, together with five other pro-independence leaders being held on rebellion charges in Spain, have filed a...
Jailed Catalan leaders halt hunger strike
Four jailed Catalan leaders have ended a hunger strike begun more than two weeks ago, their spokesman said Thursday. Jordi Sànchez, former spokesman for the...
Madrid denies meeting in Barcelona is provocation
Carmen Calvo, Spain’s deputy prime minister, has rejected claims by Catalan pro-independence supporters that the Madrid government’s decision to hold a cabinet meeting in Barcelona...
Jordi Turull appeals for non-violence at protests
Jordi Turull, the Catalan pro-independence leader in pre-trial detention for nearly a year, has urged people to avoid violence during protests planned against a Spanish...
