CATALONIA ----- State Repression and Police Intimidation in Catalonia

State Repression and Police Intimidation in Catalonia

" It is not surprising that they were forced into a plea bargain.  The Audiencia Nacional has a dubious reputation in Spain for it highly politicised judgments. This is the court responsible for initiating the prosecution of the Catalan political prisoners before their cases were passed to the Supreme Court for trial.  In the sense that it is designed to represent the political establishment, the court inherited the mantle of Franco’s notorious Public Order Tribunal. The court explicitly deals with issues of conflict deemed to be ‘political’.  The Audiencia Nacional has been condemned frequently in the European Court of Human Rights for a string of wrongful imprisonment cases and miscarriages of justice. It has, for example, convicted a group of activists who burned pictures of the Spanish king; and notoriously it was responsible for the false conviction of eleven Pakistani men who spent six years in prison for terrorism before they were finally released.  "

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/09/25/state-repression-and-police-intimidation-in-catalonia/
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CATALONIA ---- Madrid launches “anti-terror” crackdown in Catalonia

CATALONIA

Madrid launches “anti-terror” crackdown in Catalonia

" The whole “anti-terror” operation reeks of a police provocation aimed at demobilising growing opposition to attacks on democratic rights and justifying police repression. The statements of the Civil Guards and the Public Prosecutor’s Office provide no evidence that they have seized explosives."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/26/madr-s26.html
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CATALONIA ------ The state puts the squeeze on

CATALONIA

The state puts the squeeze on

“... setting up of the false narrative the Spanish state is trying to put together about the situation in Catalonia. Without convincing evidence, without criminal records for the suspects, without any violent action carried out, however small it may be, without explosive devices in their power, it's very hard to accept, just like that, the police's version of events. It rather looks, as on other occasions, like things are being exaggerated with an obvious political objective: to intimidate the independence movement ahead of the Supreme Court verdicts on the political prisoners which will be released within two weeks.”

https://www.elnacional.cat/en/editorial/jose-antich-spanish-state-puts-squeeze_424439_102.html?utm_source=Newsletter+ENGLISH&utm_campaign=df12ab1008-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a9bc005625-df12ab1008-315714613
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CATALONIA ------- While ETA no Longer Exists, Spain finds ways to Further Criminalize the Pro-sovereignty Movements in Catalonia

While ETA no Longer Exists, Spain finds ways to Further Criminalize the Pro-sovereignty Movements in Catalonia

⬛️⬜️7 Catalan pro independence activists have been sent for pre trial detention by Spanish🇪🇸 judiciary, accused of terrorism for planning peaceful protests.

When the right to freedom of assembly is criminalized it means there is no democracy.

https://intpolicydigest.org/2019/09/26/while-eta-no-longer-exists-spain-finds-ways-to-further-criminalize-the-pro-sovereignty-movements-in-catalonia/
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CATALONIA ----- Catalonia human rights abuses ‘should concern everyone’

CATALONIA

Catalonia human rights abuses ‘should concern everyone’

Imagine if Scottish ministers were hold in prison for Indyref. Do not let the same happen to Scotland, make a move!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17930649.catalonia-human-rights-abuses-should-concern-everyone/
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CATALONIA ----- State terrorism and create fear in the population

CATALONIA -----

Ramon Terricabras

https://www.facebook.com/100002354537422/posts/2585058041582655/

State terrorism and create fear in the population

We are currently in this situation;  repression, unfounded accusations, arrests, imprisonment ... all with manipulations and false evidence created by the GC.  with the approval of the Office of the Prosecutor and support of a press handed over to the power of the State.  We do not defend terrorists, who are not, but independentists, a very honest and democratic cause!

https://diario16.com/terrorism-of-state-and-crear-miedo-en-la-poblacion/
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CATALONIA

More detained, more cautious and more repressed over entire Catalonia.  We have existed for some time, in spite of everything.  In front of the attacks on our culture we have put more illustration;  before violence, civil disobedience;  Faced with massive and continuous waves of newcomers, we have put integration and tolerance, etc.

Those who from Catalonia, with a colonizing attitude, rejoice and still ask for more state repression, have no authority to speak to us as Catalans.  Not everyone who lives in Catalonia is Catalan, to be Catalan, we must love and respect our culture and not annoy our language, we must feel Catalan for free choice, regardless of its origin,  enough to be registered.  Have they come to Catalonia to live as Catalans, or to prevent Catalans living as such in their homes? ...

Those who prefer to be subjects of a carpetovetónico and distant power, do not love freedom, prefer to snatch the progress of any nation that wants to succeed beyond the empire.  They are insensitive to repression over their neighbors and tell us about a coexistence problem ...

Catalonia has suffered many exiles, expulsion of Jews during the time of the Catholic kings, brotherhoods during Charles I, critics with Philip II, the Reapers' War, 30 years of Succession, 1936-39, Francoism, among other circumstances.  Our culture and our language have suffered many bans since the time of printing, despite being the first to use it, or perhaps for this, burning books, etc.  Much political repression.  And massive colonization of people looking for a better way to make a living, or serve as squirrels to occupy the jobs of Catalans in struggle to achieve wage improvements, etc.

The State does not know how to fight against a society that claims its rights from Non-Violence and civil disobedience.  Little knows our irreducible people.  Too bad they prefer to repress to talk and agree.
  We will live like Catalans in Catalonia.  Donec Perficiam!

EU CORRUPTION

From share ownership in fossil fuels & finance to overly close relationships with business, some EU Commissioner candidates are casting shadows of corruption and conflicts of interest.

Meanwhile, concerns grow among MEPs regarding inability to scrutinise the interests of the Commissioners-designate.

Our look into the new European Commission: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2019/09/new-commission-shadows-corruption-and-conflicts-interest
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CATALONIA ----- Catalan exports went up 8% in July

CATALONIA

Catalan exports went up 8% in July

Foreign sales from Catalonia accounted for 27% in Spain as a whole

http://www.catalannews.com/business/item/catalan-exports-went-up-8-in-july

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CATALONIA

"I have written on other occasions that, whatever the Catalan independence movement might think, the actions of Spain’s PSOE government would sooner or later result in a confrontation. PM Pedro Sánchez has decided to starve the PP of any electoral oxygen and pick up where his predecessor, former PP leader Mariano Rajoy, left off. And he has wasted no time in getting down to work. Monday’s arrests and the unfortunate political and media circus which ensued are a reflection of the Socialist Party’s strategic turnaround. On Monday it became abundantly clear that this will not be a typical election campaign and that anything could happen."

https://thecatalanvoice.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-day-in-life-of-spains-pseudo.html?m=1
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CATALONIA ----- 'Catalans Tried Dialogue with Spain for 30 years: Time to Move On'

CATALONIA

'Catalans Tried Dialogue with Spain for 30 years: Time to Move On'

'Carles Puigdemont, who was thrust into the media spotlight two years ago amid a Catalonia independence referendum, insisted that those events were preceded by 30 years of Catalans exhausting all other options while attempting to engage in a realistic dialogue with Madrid.'

https://thecatalanvoice.blogspot.com/2019/09/catalans-tried-dialogue-with-spain-for.html
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CATALONIA ------- Spanish Diplomatic Behaviour in the Wake of Catalan Nationalism

Spanish Diplomatic Behaviour in the Wake of Catalan Nationalism

Spain and Catalonia have been living in a climate of open conflict since the suspension of the Estatut d’Autonomia de Catalunya (the Catalan Statute of Autonomy) in 2010 and with increasing intensity since the unofficial consultation for independence in 2014 and finally with the referendum of October 1, 2017 in which Spain sent thousands of police to Catalonia to promote acts of violence and brutality against voters, while sending to jail several political personalities who are widely considered political prisoners.

http://intpolicydigest.org/2019/08/08/spanish-diplomatic-behaviour-in-the-wake-of-catalan-nationalism/
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CATALONIA. -----. 'The Catalonia Trial: Justice or Vengeance?'

'The Catalonia Trial: Justice or Vengeance?'

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2019/06/catalonia-trial-justice-vengeance-190619145151807.html
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CATALONIA. -----. 'The Catalonia Trial: Justice or Vengeance?'

'The Catalonia Trial: Justice or Vengeance?'

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2019/06/catalonia-trial-justice-vengeance-190619145151807.html
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CATALONIA ----- With new repression, Catalan exiles propose "democratically overflowing the state"

CATALONIA

With new repression, Catalan exiles propose "democratically overflowing the state"

https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/repression-catalan-exiles-democratically-overflowing_423443_102.html
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CATALONIA

CATALONIA

"I have written on other occasions that, whatever the Catalan independence movement might think, the actions of Spain’s PSOE government would sooner or later result in a confrontation. PM Pedro Sánchez has decided to starve the PP of any electoral oxygen and pick up where his predecessor, former PP leader Mariano Rajoy, left off. And he has wasted no time in getting down to work. Monday’s arrests and the unfortunate political and media circus which ensued are a reflection of the Socialist Party’s strategic turnaround. On Monday it became abundantly clear that this will not be a typical election campaign and that anything could happen."

https://thecatalanvoice.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-day-in-life-of-spains-pseudo.html?m=1
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