Definitive electoral lists disregarding disqualified leaders published
Following the 2017 referendum verdict, independence leaders cannot run in the November 10 general election
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Brazilian journalist Taíza Brito says guilty verdict in Catalan trial would be 'institutional violence'
Author of new book on 2017 referendum believes Supreme Court decision on Catalan leaders could be "turning point" in attracting international attention
17 arrested in police operation against pickpocketing
NGO accuses police of racially profiling suspects
UN calls for release of four jailed Catalan politicians
Forn, Romeva, Rull, and Bassa “arbitrarily" detained, says United Nations Working Group
Jailed leaders’ lawyer asks UN to look into Spain for discrediting report
Spanish government had questioned impartiality of UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention opinion
Catalan president urges Spain to free pro-independence leaders following UN report
Spain demands that two members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention be disqualified
Catalan politicians denounce pretrial jail at UN
Former ministers Bassa, Rull, Romeva and Bassa bring their cases to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Migrants in Barcelona detention center start hunger strike
Group of 60 recent arrivals begin protest over living conditions in state-run facility with demand to be freed says Let’s Close the CIE NGO
EU-Commission urged to collect evidence of human rights violations at Spanish immigration detention centers
The Catalan MEPs Jordi Solé and Josep-Maria Terricabras invite the Commissioner for Interior and Immigration to visit the CIEs in person
Barcelona closes the Immigrant Detention Centre, but Spain immediately orders its reopening
Barcelona’s City Hall has found a legal stratagem for not reopening the Immigrant Detention Centre (CIE), which closed in October for renovation works. The CIE, located in Barcelona’s industrial ‘Zona Franca’ area, didn’t have the correct activity licence nor comply with fire regulations and thus the Catalan capital called for the Spanish Ministry for Affairs, the body responsible for the centre, to cease the CIE’s activity. However, the Delegation of the Spanish Government to Catalonia has announced in a communiqué the reopening of the CIE once the works are done and that the judicial services will appeal Barcelona City Hall’s decision. Before hearing about the reopening notice, Barcelona’s deputy mayor, Jaume Asens, stated that if the Ministry refuses the order and reopens the CIE “coercive measures” such as fines or “sealing off the centre” will have to be put in place.
Alleged Islamic State-affiliated cell identified in Spain; 6 arrests in Catalonia
On Friday, the Spanish Police Force arrested 8 people in an operation against Jihadist terrorism. Six of the arrests were carried out in Catalonia (in Figueres, Malgrat de Mar, Manlleu, Piera, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Terrassa), while the remaining 2 were made in the provinces of Ávila and Ciudad Real. The detainees were allegedly spreading Islamic State propaganda, which was being co-ordinated from Syria and Iraq by the terrorist organisation. In addition, they may have also been in charge of recruiting people to fight in Syria and Iraq and to commit terrorist attacks in Spain. All 8 have Spanish nationality and 5 are of Moroccan origin. The 6 people arrested in Catalonia have been moved from Barcelona to the Madrid-based 'Audiencia Nacional' Court with 3 vans and 7 cars in order to testify and to be put under judicial custody.
Russian nightclub director responsible for the death of 156 people detained in Barcelona
Spanish police detained the Russian man responsible for the death of 156 people last year in a nightclub in Perm, Russia. The man set off fireworks inside the nightclub, resulting in the deadly fire.
Police operation against Barcelona?s subway pickpockets
About 50 people have been detained in two major police operations in Barcelona?s subway since May. Minor robberies have been a constant problem in the few last years.