CATALONIA
" It’s been well over a year since Spain crushed an independence movement in the semiautonomous region of Catalonia.
Now 12 people are set to go on trial for having organized the independence referendum that sparked the crackdown.
The Spanish government accuses the defendants of sedition and
rebellion, charges that together could result in sentences of up to 25
years in prison — and that are intended to send a stern warning to
anybody else with dreams of breaking away from Spain. "
Catalan regional Parliament staff members and pro-independence MPs,
displaying yellow ribbons and the portraits of imprisoned Catalan
pro-independence political and social leaders, in a demonstration last
month in Barcelona. (Andreu Dalmau / EPA/Shutterstock)
