01/10/2018
Intermon Oxfam: “In front of a peaceful mobilization on the side of Catalan citizenship, the explicit use of violence during the day is rejectable and implies a severe infringement of fundamental rights.”
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02/10/2017
Liberties: “Available video footage suggests that abuses of power and excessive use of police force against peaceful protesters may have been widespread”
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02/10/2017
Roger Gale, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: “It has become clear that considerable and in some cases excessive violence was used”
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02/10/2017
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “Police responses must at all times be proportionate and necessary”
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02/10/2017
Amnesty international: “Excessive use of force by National Police and Civil Guard in Catalonia”
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04/10/2017
UN experts: “We urge the Spanish authorities to fully respect fundamental human rights”
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04/10/2017
Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of Council of Europe: “The Spanish authorities should ensure that swift, independent and effective investigations are carried out”
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04/10/2017
World Organization Against Torture: “OMCT condemns the use of force used which did not adhere to the principles of proportionality and necessity and recalls that this may be constitutive of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”
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22/12/2017
ELEN calls on the Spanish State to comply with its obligations established in the constituent Treaties of the European Union that requires respect for the linguistic rights of Catalan speakers, the electoral results, and democracy.
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25/10/2017
Alfred de Zayas, UN independent expert urges Spanish Government to reverse decision on Catalan autonomy
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06/02/2018
Amnesty International: “Ongoing detention of Jordi Sanchez is excessive and disproportionate”
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07/03/2018
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “I remind the authorities that pre-trial detention should be considered a measure of last resort. I encourage resolution of this situation through political dialogue.
08/08/2018
PEN International calls on Spanish authorities to drop the charges of sedition and rebellion against them and to put an immediate end to their pre-trial detention.
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06/04/2018
David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression: “I am concerned that charges of rebellion for acts that do not involve violence or incitement to violence may interfere with rights of public protest”
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15/10/2018
Fotis Filippou, Amnesty International Europe Deputy Director: “Their continued detention constitutes a disproportionate restriction on their rights to free speech and peaceful assembly”
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18/10/2017
Amnesty International: “Amnesty International calls on Spanish authorities to drop the charges of sedition and to put an immediate end to their pre-trial detention.”
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22/11/2018
OMCT, Open Letter: End the arbitrary pre-trial detention of social leader Mr. Jordi Cuixart
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23/11/2018
Front Line Defenders: Immediately drop all charges against and release Jordi Cuixart
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03/12/2018
International Association of Democratic Lawyers calls for release of Catalan political prisoners
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12/02/2019
International Commission of Jurists Trial of Catalonian leaders imperils human rights
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