Jailed leader rules out accepting pardon in interview with 'The Sunday Times'

The only Catalan jailed leader not involved with any political party, Jordi Cuixart, has ruled out accepting a pardon if it were offered, in an interview with the British newspaper 'The Sunday Times,' the Sunday version of 'The Times.'
“It would mean recognising guilt — and I don’t," he said.

He has been already a year in precautionary detention waiting for a trial, in which he will face rebellion charges, carrying a sentence of up to 30 years behind bars.

And in the interview he said he is ready for any verdict. “I don’t want to be in prison — I want to get back to my wife and family and business. But I’m prepared, if necessary, to spend a lot of time in here,” he added.

"Footage clearly shows Cuixart urging crowd to disband"

Jordi Cuixart, president of the grassroots pro-independence demonstration Òmnium, was sent to jail after the September 20, 2017 demonstrations outside the Catalan department of Economy, which was being raided by the Spanish police seeking to find evidence of the independence referendum logistics.

One of the images of the day was Cuixart along with another civic leader, Jordi Sànchez, standing on a Spanish police car asking for the demonstrators to go home.

Indeed, 'The Sunday Times' claims that the "footage of the event clearly shows Cuixart and Sanchez urging the crowd to disband".