‘Don’t let violence spoil the situation' lawyers of imprisoned leaders urge citizens
As Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart face up to 15 years in jail, their lawyers ask for patience and peaceful protest
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Lawyers denounce charges against pro-independence organization leaders
The Barcelona Bar Association says crime of inciting riotous uprising is invented
MEPs protest incarceration of civil society leaders in front of European Parliament
European politicians spoke out against Spain’s disregard for “democracy and human rights”
Calls for indefinite general strike intensify as crisis escalates
At noon on Tuesday employees stopped working across Catalonia in response to the arrests of pro-independence organization leaders
Novelists Dan Brown and Irvine Welsh speak up about Catalonia
Irvine Welsh criticizes EU’s silence on the jailing of grassroots civil society leaders
Pro-independence groups call a candlelit demonstration to urge leaders’ release
Cuixart and Sànchez have been sent to prison without bail on sedition charges after September 20 and 21 demonstrations
Pro-independence grass-root leaders are already in prison
Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart are being held without bail while they are under investigation for sedition
Pro-independence grass-root leaders sent to prison on sedition charges
Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart will already sleep in jail tonight
The two main Spanish parties agree to set up commission for Constitutional reform
Agreement reached between Spanish president Mariano Rajoy and leader of the opposition Pedro Sánchez one day after Carles Puigdemont’s speech in parliament
Catalan police chief released after being questioned for sedition
Pro-independence civil society organisation leaders refused to testify and no precautionary measures have been taken against defendants
Catalan police chief and pro-independence civil society organizations leaders in court accused of sedition
The crime of sedition carries jail sentences of between 4 and 15 years
Catalan police chief and pro-independence civil society leaders called to testify in sedition case
Court investigates Barcelona demonstrations against police raids on Catalan ministries and those responsible for impeding the work of the authorities “by force or illegally”
Spain’s attorney general will act without “hesitation” against Oct 1 referendum
Supreme Court president says attitudes from pro-independence leaders’ “damage democracy” and are “unacceptable”
Spanish parties united against referendum
From Rajoy to Sánchez to Rivera, the leaders of Spain’s main political groups speak out against October 1 vote
PP and PSOE united against Catalan referendum
The two main Spanish parties are frontally opposed to the celebration of an independence referendum in Catalonia and their leaders will fight together against the Catalan government plans’ to hold one. In a phone conversation on Monday, the Spanish President and leader of the People’s Party (PP), Mariano Rajoy, and the re-elected leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez, discussed their united front against a self-determination vote in Catalonia. “The PSOE will defend the legality and the Constitution,” confirmed the Spanish Vice President, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, in a press conference in Madrid, where she briefed journalists about the two leaders’ conversation. According to her, the Socialists are “against the illegal referendum being planned by the Catalan Government” and will block “any attempt” to “violate” the Spanish Constitution. Sáenz de Santamaría also insisted that a self-determination referendum is “unnegotiable” but again urged the Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, to present his plans in the Spanish Congress.