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Catalan minister
@toni_comin
, deposed by Spanish govt and now in Belgium, plays famous song 'Laura' by anti-Francoist activist
@lluis_llach
. It's now a month since Puigdemont and his ministers arrived in Brussels
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Thousands of people are gathered outside the site of the France-Spain summit in Barcelona to call for Catalan independence
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🎥 Live back the first minutes of Bruce Springsteen’s concert in Barcelona on Friday, marking the start of his 2023 European Tour
More:
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🎥 Spain's Guardia Civil enters weekly paper in southern Catalonia searching for referendum material, citizens protest: "We will vote!"
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Football coach Pep Guardiola reads statement on behalf of Tsunami Democràtic protest group, calling on the international community to take a clear stance on the Catalan independence conflict
Learn more:
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Over 40 MEPs from 15 nation states demand freedom for jailed Catalan leaders, rejection of European Arrest Warrants, and EU mediation
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📽️ Members of the European Parliament wear yellow to demand the release of Catalan leaders from jail ➡️.
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🎥 | Thousands are marching to Barcelona from various Catalan towns and cities in protest against the
#CatalanTrial
verdict
#MarxesXLlibertat
📝 | Read more:
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Xavi, former FCBarcelona player:"What's happening in Catalonia is shameful.It's unacceptable that in a democratic country people can't vote"
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⚠️200,000 people take to the streets of Barcelona demanding release of pro-independence leaders, according to police figures
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People celebrate the independence declaration in Catalonia
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🎥Catalan police officer ask Spain's Guardia Civil to calm down during the charges against
#CatalanReferendum
. What's Spain's police answer?
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"They hit me and many others. I was here to defend people's right to vote"
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Wolfgang Schomburg: "The vast majority of Germans were in favor of Mr Puigdemont. It was very hard to digest why it was a criminal matter when it was about self-determination" ➡️.
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People celebrate independence declaration today w/ chanting and champagne in massive march towards Plaça S. Jaume
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🎥 Aerial images of the Diagonal avenue, in Barcelona, flooded with pro-independence supporters in the million-strong National Day march
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Imprisonment of Catalan leaders is an "affront to human rights" and a "classic case of arbitrary political detention," says British lawyer Ben Emmerson. Learn more here ➡️.
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Pep Guardiola calls for "a mediator from outside" to help the conflict between Catalonia and Spain be solved. "The international community must help us," he says
"How incredible it is that people is peacefully walking from all around Catalonia to Barcelona," Man City coach adds
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🎥Citizens sang Christmas carols across Catalonia today to urge the release of pro-independence leaders, who will spend Christmas in jails 700km far from their homes
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Catalan justice minister: "Today the Spanish state has decided to attack its citizens. It is state violence".
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🎥 MEPs in Brussels call for release of jailed Catalan leaders. “EU cannot look the other way,” says Slovenian former foreign minister
@ivajgl
@EUCat_Dialogue
Learn more: .
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#BREAKING
"Yes" vote wins
#CatalanReferendum
on independence with 90% out of 2.2 million ballots
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#BREAKING
Amnesty International calls on Spain to drop the charges of sedition against pro-independence leaders and to free them immediately
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Jean-Paul Carteron,
@CransMontanaF
president, on the prosecution of pro-independence leaders in Spain: "It's extremely grave to have political prisoners and a political refugee in the 21st century EU" ➡️.
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Catalan president Carles Puigemont: "Catalans have earned the right to an independent state. Catalonia has won its sovereignty"
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Catalan police protect people at a polling station in Vielha. Citizen comforts police officer after he breaks into tears
#CatalanReferendum
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📽️ "We’re very content with our arrangements, and I think that they could, perhaps—in important respects—be imitated by others who proclaim a commitment to democracy," said UK House of Commons speaker. Read more ➡️.
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#BREAKING
Catalan president to officially declare independence if Spain suspend self-government
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🎥 "To call them criminals, violent rebels, to threaten them with up to 25 years in prison...that is something that people in Europe don't understand," says Flemish MEP
@markdemesmaeker
at
#CatalanTrial
➡️
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🎥The Human Rights Commission of United Nations expresses "dismay" at Spanish police violence during independence referendum. Find out more ➡️ .
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📽️ Mary Lou McDonald, Ireland's Sinn Féin leader, on Catalonia: "Nobody has the right to deny that, people has a right to self-determination"
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#BREAKING
Civil society groups in Catalonia call for mass withdrawal of money from ATMs tomorrow at 8am to pressure Spanish government
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President Carles Puigdemont and deposed ministers join 200 mayors in Brussels in event in support of the "legitimate govt" of Catalonia
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Hundreds of thousands flood BCN center in order to protest against the imprisonment of 2 civil society leaders and the Spanish govt measures
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Slovenian Socialist party leaders congratulate Catalonia on declaring independence
Together with secretary general of
@strankaSD
,
@DejanLevanic
, I congratulate the brave people of Catalonia on the establishment of the new Republic. May solidarity, equality and justice be ever in your favour ;)
#CatalanReferendum
#IndependenciaCatalunya
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Catalan Health Minister Toni Comín receives citizens' support at a polling station. People chant "We will vote!"
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FC Barcelona player Gerard Piqué: "It's the worst decision by Spain in the past 40-50 years and will have consequences"
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⚠️
#BREAKING
73 citizens have decided to sue the attacks received by the Spanish police yesterday so far
#CatalanReferendum
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#BREAKING
Exiled leaders Puigdemont and Comín, and jailed official Junqueras, get seats in EU parliament as EU election results in Catalonia are out (95% counted)
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Spanish Guardia Civil police enters
#Catalan
print shop in search of independence
#referendum
material. Watch it here 🎥
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⚠️
#BREAKING
German judiciary frees deposed president Carles Puigdemont on bail and rejects charges of rebellion for lack of violence
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#BREAKING
United Nations accepts for consideration Carles Puigdemont's appeal for protection of his political rights
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"This should not happen in a democratic Europe," says Ivo Vajgl, Slovenian MEP and Former Foreign Affairs minister on the imprisonment of pro-independence leaders ➡️.
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⚠️Catalan president says Parliament will declare independence, as stated in referendum law, if 'Yes' wins tonight
#CatalanReferendum
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🎥 | Journalists hold a protest in the center of Barcelona to denounce the violence experienced while covering last week's disturbances in the Catalan capital and throughout Catalonia, which was often at the hands of the police despite wearing bright orange press vests.
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🎥 850km march from Barcelona to Madrid prisons to support jailed leaders completed
#KMSxlaLLIBERTAT
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🎥"We condemn the violence towards the prisoners, who are behind bars, in undignified and inhumane conditions, removed from everyday life with their families,” says Slovenian former foreign minister ➡️.
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Manchester City coach says Catalans in favor of independence have always acted "peacefully" ➡️
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'Long live Franco,' chanted some protesters during the unionist march in Barcelona today while insulting Catalan police officers
Visques a Franco entre els manifestants unionistes que insulten als Mossos
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#BREAKING
Catalan president Carles Puigdemont brings the Spanish State to the United Nations Human Rights Committee
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📽️ | Speaking in court during his disobedience trial, Catalan president Quim Torra says he will not answer any of far-right Vox's questions as they are acting as public prosecutor for this case.
Find out more:
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#BREAKING
450,000 attending today's march to protest against imprisonment of two civil pro-independence leaders according to local police
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Catalan president calls people to “democratically oppose” Madrid takeover. Watch it here ➡️.
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Demonstration in
#Brussels
to call for the release of Catalan political and social leaders is now underway ➡.
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⚠️Catalan Parliament president Carme Forcadell on debate suspension: "We cannot allow a court to tell us what should we talk about"
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🎥 | Catalan News catches up with ex-Catalan president Carles Puigdemont's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, not long after his client's extradition hearing in Sardinia to discuss the pro-independence leader's situation and what the future holds for him
📝 | More:
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🎥 Catalan Parliament president Carme Forcadell on debate suspension: "We cannot allow a court to tell us what we should talk about"
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⚠️Spanish King does not condemn police violence in Catalonia nor does he urge dialogue between Catalan and Spanish authorities
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🎥 Catalan president announces he'll implement the result of the referendum. If Yes has won,independence will be declared. Voting underway
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Former Slovenian Foreign Affairs minister Ivo Vajgl calls imprisonment of Catalan politicians "outrageous" and "absurd" ➡️.
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📽️ "I would like also to thank the Scottish people for their solidarity, for their generosity, for supporting Clara," said Catalan president
@QuimTorraiPla
today in Edinburgh. Read more ➡️.
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#BREAKING
Jail for five Catalan leaders. Presidential candidate Jordi Turull, former parliament speaker Carme Forcadell and deposed ministers Dolors Bassa, Josep Rull and Raül Romeva sent to pre-trial prison
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Half a million take to the streets in big anti-terror rally in
#Barcelona
.
#NoTincPor
#WeAreNotAfraid
More info ➡️
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Over a hundred academics call for ‘immediate’ release of Catalan leaders. They are critical of the “escalation in the use of criminal charges and arrests continued to be used by Spain against its political opponents.”
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#Slovenian
parliament condemns
#SpanishPolice
#violence
. I am concerned about the situation, says PM ➡️ .
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Catalan president Carles Puigdemont: "Catalonia is no longer an internal affair. Catalonia is a European affair"
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📽️Pro-independence activists occupy EU HQ in Barcelona.
@assemblea
president explains reasons for protest. Learn more:
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Catalan president Carles Puigdemont calls people to "democratically oppose" the Spanish government's takeover ➡️.
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City council in Girona removes Spanish flag after Catalan Parliament votes on independence declaration
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🎥Demonstrators support a "republican government" and shout chants such as 'Puigdemont is our president' and 'Freedom for political prisoners' ➡️.
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Catalan president says "police brutality will forever shame those who are justifying it"
#CatalanReferendum
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#BREAKING
Pro-independence organizations call general strike on October 3 to protest against violent crackdown on
#CatalanReferendum
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🎥Roger Español lost an eye when he was shot with a rubber bullet by Spanish police on the day of the referendum. He is taking legal action and hopes to be last person in Spain this happens to ➡️ .
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📽️ Lawyer
@NicoKrisch
accuses Spain of “grave interference with the democratic order in Catalonia.” Learn more here:
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"This building will become a library," people chant in front of Spanish police headquarters in Barcelona
#3Oct
➡️.
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Catalan president urges citizens to defend the new country with "peace, civility and dignity"
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Unusual sightseeing today for those visiting popular Costa Brava locations such as Cadaqués and Port de la Selva. Their beaches are covered with over 3,000 yellow crosses, in a protest against "the death of freedoms" in Catalonia ➡️
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#UPDATE
#CatalanReferendum
Total votes: 2,262,424
Yes: 2.020.144 (90,09%)
No: 176.565 (7,87%)
Blank: 45.586 (2,03%)
Null: 20.129 (0,89%)
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Members of the European Parliament visit Catalonia on election day
#21D
Mark Demesmaeker, Martina Anderson and Marie-Pierre Vieu
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Catalan students on strike are marching in support of the Oct 1 independence referendum. "Let's go on a general strike," they chant
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#BREAKING
President Quim Torra announces lockdown for the whole of Catalonia, with restrictions on entry and exit of the territory
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🎥 Spain's Guardia Civil raids two printing firms in Barcelona area in search of Oct 1 referendum material
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⚠️5,345,358 Catalans eligible to vote on Catalonia's independence referendum. There will be 2,315 polling stations around the country
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Crowd in Barcelona chants "L'Estaca", a Catalan song that became a protest anthem against the Franco dictatorship
#3Oct
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Carles Puigdemont: “If a clear majority of votes and seats from a community says ‘I want to be an independent state,’ this is a decision that must be respected.” Read more here ➡️.
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🎥 "It is not normal that the people who want to exercise their political rights are the ones in prison, I don't understand it," says Flemish parliament speaker Jan Peumans
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⚠️Puigdemont: "Catalans have earned the right to be respected in Europe. The EU can no longer look the other way. We are European citizens"
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⚠️Parliament declares the Catalan independent Republic, urges government to open constituent process
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Aamer Anwar, Clara Ponsatí's lawyer: "We don't believe that the Spanish judiciary is independent, and that if she is returned back to Spain she can't be guaranteed her human rights and a right to a fair trial" ➡️.
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#BREAKING
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights asks to open an investigation on Spain's police violence against Catalan voters
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Students took to the streets today in Catalonia. "We will vote," they chanted. Watch it here ➡️.
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Slovenian socialists say Slovenia will be among the first to recognize Catalonia's independence ➡️.
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The peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia could be an example to find a way out in the conflict involving Catalonia and Spain over independence, says Czech PM
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