Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Defiant New Catalan Leader Wants Jailed Separatists in Government

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Catalonia's newly-elected president is showing no sign of backing down from the region's political standoff with Spanish authorities, insisting he wants jailed former lawmakers to join his pro-independence Catalan government. Quim Torra says Jordi Turull and Josep Rull, prominent secessionists who are in pre-trial detention, are keen to become government ministers and have asked a judge to release them. Torra visited them at their jails near Madrid on Monday. But...

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