Tag Archives: U d’Octubre

Sovereignty & Justice (S&J)’s international statement


Spain’s Constitution Day:

Four Catalan Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike

Today, December 6, is a bitter day. Officially, Spain celebrates all dressed up, with pomp and grandiloquent rhetoric, the 40th anniversary of a Constitution that is kept under lock and key to prevent it from ever being amended. It is irrelevant that four out of the nine Catalan political prisoners unjustly accused of “rebellion” for events occurring in autumn of 2017, are now on hunger strike. It is the only recourse they have to protest the discrimination and arbitrariness to which they are exposed under the highly politicized Spanish justice system.

Continua llegint →

Carta a Dolors Bassa: “L’obligat camí d’autoperfeccionament que ens imposa l’àrdua consecució de la República, ens acabarà fent molt millors”

#FreedomLetters

A/A: Hble. Sra. Dolors Bassa / Centre Penitenciari Puig de les Basses / Figueres

Benvolguda consellera,

la tardor avança inexorable. La neu ha arribat a la cota 1.800 i ha emblanquinat els cims més alts del Pirineu, sobretot al vessant nord. Aquestes darreres hores forts aiguats han regat de cap a peus i copiosament Catalunya, i han fet baixar les temperatures. Tot plegat m’ha fet pensar en les recluses d’Alcalá-Meco que, molt probablement, malgrat la frescor que s’insinua també a Madrid, no tindran calefacció fins al desembre. I quan aquest mes arribi, en gaudiran només una estona al migdia i a la nit, mai al matí. Com cada hivern, les internes d’aquest centre penitenciari passaran fred.

Sí, com veus, m’he llegit el llibre de la Meritxell Borràs.

Divendres, organitzàrem a Sobirania i Justícia un acte amb ella a Barcelona. Conversàrem sobre “34 dies de tardor i 1 de primavera”. L’esdeveniment congregà més de 300 assistents. Ple fins a la bandera. Malauradament, moltes altres persones no pogueren entrar per falta d’aforament. Una munió de gent sense inscriure (havíem hagut de tancar les inscripcions perquè s’havien exhaurit les places) s’aplegà davant la porta d’accés, ben bé una hora abans de l’inici de l’acte. Buf, quin mal tràngol! I quin greu més gran haver de dissoldre la cua perquè l’auditori era ja ple de gom a gom.

Continua llegint →

Sovereignty & Justice (S&J)’s international statement

Logo anglès
Fundamental rights violation:

No Fair Trial for Catalan Political Prisoners

In July 2018, Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena concluded the investigation phase of the sedition and rebellion charges brought against civic and political leaders after the political events in Catalonia in September and October 2017. The investigation sets out the legal basis for the defendants to be prosecuted for rebellion, embezzlement and disobedience, crimes which can lead to severe sentences of up to 30 years in prison. The basis for this criminal case is the organisation and holding of a self-determination referendum, and the political declaration -without any practical effects- of the independence of Catalonia by the Catalan Parliament.

The investigating judge has constructed an inflamed and improbable narrative based on non-existent violence and, moreover, on unreliable information from the Civil Guard (Spanish armed police), full of errors and imprecisions but sufficient to be used to put the defendants into preventive custody and suspend their political rights. The only violence on record during these days was that of the brutal police charges against those who went peacefully to vote on October.

Continua llegint →