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Around 350 people gathered in Barcelona's university square to stick flyers to walls, bus shelters and metro station platforms, which bore the portraits of politicians currently in custody, including former deputy president Oriol Junqueras and seven ministers, plus leaders of the Catalunya National Assembly (ANC) and Òmnium Cultural, Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart respectively.
Slogans on the posters read 'Free the political prisoners' and 'We're a Republic'.
Similar mass poster-sticking protests have taken place today (Sunday) with hundreds of locals in Catalunya's other three provincial capital cities, Tarragona, Girona and Lleida.
Òmnium and the ANC have planned further protests, including a mass demonstration on Saturday (November 11) and a general strike of all workers and public services across the region.
The two separatist organisations say the protests will be 'peaceful' and part of what they are now calling 'Freedom Week'.
Members of the international activist group Anonymous, wearing masks modelled on those from the film V for Vendetta, joined in sticking posters up, and music played during the entire act.
Saturday's demonstration will be, according to the organisers, at least as large as the public gathering held in Barcelona every year on September 11 for Catalunya's regional day, known as the Diada de Catalunya.
Even whilst behind bars, however, the so-called 'political prisoners' have not ceased the fight – Cuixart and Sànchez continue to organise demonstrations from their cells, and Junqueras said yesterday (Saturday) that 'if prison is the price of freedom, it is worth paying'.
Photograph by the Catalunya National Assembly (ANC) on Twitter
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