Fighting with cudgels, knee-deep in mud
| 17/02/2019
The seven Spanish police vehicles "razed" outside the Ministry and other doubts arising from the prosecution's cross-examination of Forn
Barcelona | 15/02/2019
The Prosecutor’s Office incorrectly translated a Catalan police report
The prosecutor chooses revenge over the truth
Barcelona | 13/02/2019
Spanish public prosecutor has woven a narrative that bears little resemblance with October 2017
There is no transparency on television: it is censorship
| 13/02/2019
The Supreme Court's broadcast does not offer any guarantee of the democratic quality of the trial
Junqueras’ lawyer calls for his release, claims all the rights enshrined in the Constitution have been violated
| 13/02/2019
The trial has begun by looking towards Europe
Witnessing Justice in Catalonia
| 12/02/2019
Once again the problem of justice in Spain is in the balance
European Democratic Lawyers Association calls for immediate release of political prisoners
Barcelona | 12/02/2019
International observers will travel to Madrid during the trial
The agent of chaos, the end of the world and other details
| 10/02/2019
In Spain, the memory of the Civil War and the ensuing forty years of oppressive regime is fading
The right is using Catalonia to create a rift in Spain
| 08/02/2019
After their pact in Andalusia, PP, Cs and Vox will be staging a joint march this Sunday in Madrid
A mediation with the independence movement that the PP did accept
Barcelona | 07/02/2019
At the request of the then Spanish president, Arriola mediated to stop the 9-N consultation
The conditions for Catalan political prisoners before the trial
| 06/02/2019
This article is not about football, though it may seem so
Catalan prisoners: cold cells, yellow garments seized, computers and El Jueves confiscated
Madrid | 06/02/2019
The Speaker of the Catalan parliament has criticized the State's "sick obsession" with "persecuting a movement"
The chasm with Catalonia grows wider
05/02/2019
The drive to seize back devolved regional powers is strongest in Castile, Aragon and the Madrid region
The State on trial
| 04/02/2019
A farcical trial
| 01/02/2019
Spain has a long history of human rights violations
CC dragging their feet on Junqueras’ appeal against pre-trial imprisonment
MADRID | 31/01/2019
Convened in a plenary session, the court said it is studying the appeal and pointed out its "complexity and significance"
Spain’s Supreme Court denies any similarity with the Demirtas case
30/01/2019
The court that will see the case against the Catalan leaders is trying to pretend that pro-independence views are not being suppressed
No fewer than 13 groups of international observers will follow the trial against the Catalan leaders and they demand a seat in court
MADRID | 30/01/2019
They claim to have no ties with Catalonia’s pro-independence movement and complain about the hurdles laid by Spain’s Supreme Court
Observers? They can watch it on telly!
| 29/01/2019
Spain’s Attorney General suggested that the international observers should follow the trial on TV
Between the call and the shouting
Editor-in-chief | 27/01/2019
The party system is beginning to restructure itself, and this will allow new leaders to emerge and, perhaps, a clearer strategy for a response to Spain following 27-Oct.
ECHR ruled against Spain in 9 out of 10 cases in 2018
| 25/01/2019
Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine are the countries with the most convictions for human rights violations
Spain’s Supreme Court before 1-O trial: "The right to vote in an unlawful consultation does not exist"
| 24/01/2019
Court issues ruling that reduces 9-N sentence for Mas, Ortega and Rigau
False dichotomy
Professor of Constitutional Law (University of Seville) | 23/01/2019
The way in which the October 1 case has proceeded so far inevitably points to a guilty verdict
Eighty years later
Editor-in-chief | 21/01/2019
A blatantly intimidatory operation
18/01/2019
The crackdown aims to elicit a violent response in order to justify further repression
Striking and punching voters: four more officers probed over police baton charges on Oct 1st
BARCELONA | 17/01/2019
According to the Barcelona City Council, this is now the biggest case of police violence, with 33 people being investigated
In Spain holding an unauthorised referendum ceased to be an offence in 2005
16/01/2019
PM Zapatero repealed Aznar’s 2003 criminal code amendment aimed at thwarting Ibarretxe’s referendum plans in the Basque Country
The bait
Editor-in-Chief | 14/01/2019
The PSOE and the pro-independence groups want to gain maximum benefit and minimal public erosion
A pact with the far right that will be costly for the PP, Cs, and society
10/01/2019
Vox has managed to impose its agenda on the next Andalusian government
Those who have nourished Vox are to blame
| 10/01/2019
After lending the far-right party their support, the PP and Cs are suddenly outraged by its xenophobic political agenda
