Irish MEP urges Tajani to speak up following hunger strike by ‘Catalan political prisoners’
"Crimes amount to allowing people to vote to determine their own future," says Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy
Matt Carthy, an Irish member of the European Parliament, has called on the chamber president Antonio Tajani to make a statement on the incarceration of Catalan pro-independence leaders following a hunger strike by some of the jailed politicians.
"You will be aware that 4 of the 9 Catalan political prisoners have embarked on a hunger strike," said Carthy at the EP plenary session on Monday.
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