Hunger strike by jailed Catalan leaders ‘terrible for Spain,’ says MEP

Antonio Marinho Pinto, a member of the European Parliament from Portugal, has said that the hunger strike by two jailed Catalan leaders is "terrible for Spain," adding that "putting political rivals in jail is improper of a democratic state."

Pinto, a member of the liberal ALDE group, visited the former parliament speaker Carme Forcadell in prison on Monday. He was accompanied by Miroslavs Mitrofanos, a member of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament from Latvia.