Politics

Spokesman Alexander Winterstein refuses to comment on the arrest or "its implications"

Cuixart and Sànchez have been sent to prison without bail on sedition charges after September 20 and 21 demonstrations

Imprisoned leaders of pro-independence organizations call people to peacefully take to the streets to protest their arrest

Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart will already sleep in jail tonight

Diverse reactions from lawmakers in Catalonia as Spanish and Catalan executives begin war of words in run-up to declaration deadline

Artur Mas asks Court of Auditors for more time to pay the full €5.2 million fine

Unionist Ciutadan’s spokesman has stated that the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry has “a bad international strategy” 

The PP leader in Catalonia, Xavier García Albiol, says they seek to ‘destroy Spain’

Spanish Guardia Civil accuse police in Catalonia of “flagrant inaction” on referendum day, thus prompting their violent crackdown on voters

Michel asks for dialogue while Paris mayor acknowledges that “someone” asked her to act as a mediator 

Ada Colau blames Spanish president Mariano Rajoy for asking Catalan leader to "surrender"

Mariano Rajoy ignores Puigdemont’s call for a meeting and mentions that he is ready to implement the Constitutional provision to suspend Catalonia's self-rule

Catalan president asks his Spanish counterpart to stop “repression” but does not clarify whether or not he declared independence

The Catalan president has until Monday 10am to clarify whether he declared independence last Tuesday

Central government appeals to Carles Puigdemont to ignore demands by allies to initiate independence and to return to “legality”