CATALONIA -- Letters
Grave concern for electoral monitors facing jail in Spain
More than 400 academics in the fields of political science, law and
other disciplines express their worries that electoral monitors in Spain
are being threatened with jail over their role in Catalonia’s
independence referendum
Hunger strikers Jordi Sànchez (left), Jordi Turull (third left), Joaquim
Forn (centre) and Josep Rull (second right) pose with Oriol Junqueras
(second left), Jordi Cuixart (third right) and Raul Romeva in prison.
Photograph: Omnium Cultural Handout/EPA