Letter from the Catalan Goverment to the UNHRC (UN Commission on Human Rights)
Puigdemont letter asking for help to the United Nations The Government sent letters to the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN and the Council of Europe
international offensive of the Government of Carles Puigdemont to denounce the "persecution of elected representatives who supported the resolution I / XI Parlament de Catalunya", the document declaring "solemnly begin the process of creating a Catalan state as a Republic" .
The CEO of Afers multilaterals i Europeus the Department d'Exteriors of the Government, Manuel Manonelles, referred the Aug. 31 letters to Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Gianni Magazzeni, head of the same commissioner for America, Europe and Central Asia; and Nils Muiznieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe.
In these letters, which has had access La Vanguardia, the Government not only denounces "judicial persecution" of elected independence but also announced the "measures that the future Catalan government apply in order to safeguard the fundamental rights affected by the decisions of the Spanish State ".
prosecution
In his letter, Manonelles moves the decision of the Justice Commission of the Parliament on 23 June, urging the Government to raise international human rights organizations the "current anti-democratic character of the Spanish judicial institutions and the disregard of fundamental and political rights of the Catalans by pursuing elected officials. "
Also communicates in the same letter, the resolution of the Justice Commission of the Parliament in which "condemns the chief prosecutor of the Audiencia Nacional, Javier Zaragoza, the circular which instructs persecution of Catalan elected".
The letter also "regrets the will of political manipulation of the courts by the State Government, with the intent to violate the fundamental and political rights of the Catalans elected". A situation that, under Parliament, "prevents fulfilling the mandate received from the citizens" and thus express the international leaders.
Measures to "safeguard fundamental rights"
Govern letters include an annex with a set of nine measures "apply the future Catalan government to safeguard the fundamental rights affected by decisions of the Spanish State".
Specifically, the Government alleges that the State has suspended a law on urgent measures to alleviate social emergencies, housing and energy needs measures. A law, the High Commissioners explained, was intended to "ensure drinking water supply, gas and electricity to people at risk of social exclusion".
Manonelles added in his letter the "guarantee that the future will Govern universal public access to quality health care" and does not exclude any health system for "economic reasons". In the same vein, the Government explains that maintain the proper education system in Catalonia by the "consensus" that generates both socially and in the education community. "
In the list, the Government says will stand firm in defending the autonomy of local governments, in the policy of welcoming refugees, the right to abortion and financing plans social emergency and management debt, which promises to renegotiate with banks.
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