President and speaker visit jailed leaders

The Catalan president Quim Torra and parliament speaker Roger Torrent have visited the prisons now holding the jailed leaders on the same day of their relocation from Madrid region penitentiary centres. Pro-independence supporters gathered outside both prisons , calling for the release of the jailed officials and activists.

While Torra visited the Lledoners prison which will now hold Oriol Junqueras, Raúl Romeva, Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez, Torrent went to the Puig de les Basses centre holding female pro-independence leaders Dolors Bassa and Carme Forcadell. Both Torra and Torrent took part in marches outside the respective prisons.  

After speaking with Bassa and Forcadell, Torrent said that he saw them as  “strong, but being close to home is not being at home.” Protesters gathered throughout the day shouting "freedom" and waving pro-independence flags. The demonstrations outside the prisons carried on into the evening. President Torra, speaking outside the Lledoners prison, said he will not give up until the jailed leaders are free.

Six out of nine leaders in Catalan prisons

Six out of the nine Catalan leaders incarcerated have now been transferred to Catalan prisons after spending several months in Madrid penitentiaries. Two of them, Carme Forcadell and Dolors Bassa, left Alcalá-Meco center on Wednesday at 7.45am local time and arrived in the Puig de les Basses jail shortly after 4pm, in northern Catalonia, later on in the day after a short stopover in the Saragossa area.

The other four, including the former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras, started their journey around an hour later in the Zuera prison, also in the Saragossa region, were they spent a night while being transferred from two Madrid jails. They arrived in the Brians II center later in the morning, where they were moved to the nearby Lledoners prison at around 1pm.