reposting cuz i dug it late last bread,,,, but 17 years prison? hmmm

'This is a fake trial,' says Catalan culture minister

Laura Borràs tells Catalan News that case against independence leaders is a battle for "civil rights, freedom and justice"

Spanish lawyers were really concerned about what happened on September 20 [protests]. They were concerned about two Spanish police cars, when we are mostly concerned about what happens in terms of justice, of freedom, and why they have spent 500 days in prison, pre trial. she said

cuixart faces 17 years in prison.

http://www.catalannews.com/catalan-trial/item/activist-cuixart-testifies-in-catalan-trial.”

http://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/this-is-a-fake-trial-says-catalan-culture-minister

adding to this, it’s the third week of trials, so we’ll see what happens

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article from last year but these are the protests from 2018 mentioned, after the banned vote took place anyway to split from spain,

A million attend rally in Barcelona to call for Catalan independence

“You need to have the courage to speak clearly if you’re going to move ahead,” he told Catalan TV on Monday. “You have to admit where we are and where we’d like to be. You have to start building again from there and learning from the mistakes that have been made.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/11/catalans-renew-calls-independence-rally-barcelona

During the Sept. 20 protests, Spanish police were trapped inside a Barcelona building and their vehicles were destroyed as anger among those favouring independence boiled over.

The Spanish police were trying to halt the referendum.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/thousands-gather-in-barcelona-as-anniversary-of-independence-vote-approaches-idUSKCN1M032Y?il=0