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Amid political in-fighting, Catalan independence takes to the streets again for ‘La Diada’

News Desk12th September 202219th September 2022

12th September 202219th September 2022543

While the local police in Barcelona calculated that 150,000 people attended a mass pro-independence rally in the city on Sunday, coinciding with ‘La Diada’ (the

UN human rights committee says Spain at fault for suspension of Catalan MPs

News Desk31st August 20227th September 2022

31st August 20227th September 2022479

Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have said that Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan government and parliament by

Supreme Court to allow appeals against pardons given to Catalan independence leaders

News Desk25th May 202229th May 2022

25th May 202229th May 2022510

Spain’s Supreme Court has reversed its decision to uphold the pardons granted for the formerly jailed Catalan independence leaders. On Tuesday, the court voted in favour

Catalan government rejects spying investigation, demands resignations

News Desk25th April 20222nd May 2022

25th April 20222nd May 2022795

The Spanish government has promised full transparency by opening an ‘internal investigation’ into allegations that 65 pro-independence Catalan politicians and activists have been the target of

Puigdemont returns to Belgium before Sardinia extradition hearing on 4 Oct

News Desk26th September 20214th October 2021

26th September 20214th October 20211712

Final update on Sun 26 Sept at 19h. Former Catalan president and MEP Carles Puigdemont, detained by Italian police on his arrival to Sardinia on Thursday evening

Sánchez and Aragonès resume talks, despite ‘radically different’ views

News Desk15th September 202120th September 2021

15th September 202120th September 20212306

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with the Catalan President Pere Aragonès in Barcelona on Wednesday – at the start of resuming ‘dialogue’ between the two governments on resolving the Catalan

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Over 100,000 rally in Barcelona for Catalan independence on the ‘Diada’

News Desk12th September 202117th September 2021

12th September 202117th September 20211486

Over 100,000 people took to the streets in Barcelona on Saturday afternoon, marking the 10th year in a row that a huge pro-independence rally has

Scottish court dismisses extradition case of Catalan MEP, Clara Ponsatí

News Desk26th August 202131st August 2021

26th August 202131st August 20211199

A court in Scotland has dropped the extradition case of Clara Ponsatí, a Catalan pro-independence politician wanted by Spain for ‘sedition’, stating it no longer

Puigdemont, Comín and Ponsatí lose immunity again

News Desk30th July 20215th August 2021

30th July 20215th August 20211296

Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, together with two of his former ministers, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí, have again lost their parliamentary immunity after the European

Sánchez: there will ‘never’ be an independence referendum for Catalonia

News Desk30th June 202120th July 2021

30th June 202120th July 20211044

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez insisted on Wednesday that there will not be an independence referendum in Catalonia because his socialist PSOE party ‘will never, ever

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