A Year on, Catalan Secessionists Are Still Trying to Break Spain's Historical Union | Opinion

There are no political prisoners in Spain. The Catalan politicians that are under preventative detention, provided by the Spanish law and pending trial, and those who fled to avoid criminal charges, have created their own predicament when they violated the Spanish Constitution and the Catalan Statute of Autonomy (the law of self-government in Catalonia) and issued an illegal proclamation of an independent Catalan Republic on October 27, 2018.
It is unjustifiable that they expect to avoid the consequences of these actions. Likewise, the pro-secession activists are not in preventative detention for their ideas but because they encouraged their followers to take to the streets and obstruct the work of the judiciary officers in performance of their duties.
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