catalan independence

Toni Comín, Meritxell Serret and Lluís Puig are free while the court decides on their extradition request

Justice minister insists detention at request of Swiss government is unrelated to Spanish authorities wanting to extradite pro-independence politicians in Switzerland

Deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont voted against the motion, in the first time he cast a ballot through a delegate

"Spain does not behave democratically of its own will, so let's make it answer to the international organizations that it must obey", says Catalan leader in letter

The officials in the Catalan town of Pineda de Mar allegedly coerced local hotels into expelling Spanish police, dispatched to prevent October 1 independence referendum

Annabel Marcos’ “immediate” dismissal was approved by the Spanish Ministry of Interior

Local network Committees in Defense of the Republic recently blocked highways in protest of the detention of pro-independence leaders

The pro-independence leadership is either in jail or abroad, Catalonia is under direct rule of Madrid and the standstill to elect a new president continues as protest on the streets grow

Beaches in famous Costa Brava locations such as Cadaqués and Port de la Selva covered with over 3,000 crosses

Pro-independence politicians have paid huge sums of money to skip prison and some have even offered their houses as guarantee

The German newspaper ‘Die Welt’ published an inquiry revealing that only the majority of Merkel voters wish to see the deposed Catalan president extradited