Politics & People news & information for Catalonia

THREE-QUARTERS of a million people turned out onto the streets of Barcelona last night (Saturday) in a mass protest against Article 155 and calling for the release of 'political prisoners', who include...

KREMLIN-CONTROLLED media channels used social networks to diffuse 'a negative image of Spain' in the run-up to and just after Catalunya's disputed referendum on October 1, according to a study of over five...

CHAIRWOMAN of Catalunya's Parliament Carme Forcadell has been granted bail with a release fee of €150,000, despite the Spanish prosecution calling for her to be remanded in custody.

AN ATTEMPT at a region-wide shutdown in Catalunya yesterday (Wednesday) 'failed spectacularly' according to Spain's national government – although travellers and commuters on the high-speed AVE trains and...

SPAIN may not have entirely ruled out a referendum on independence in Catalunya in the future, based upon foreign minister Alfonso Dastis' comments to the BBC in a recent interview.

FORMER president of Catalunya Carles Puigdemont and his four ministers who fled to Belgium with him have been released from custody with charges, but are not permitted to leave the northern European country.

PROTESTERS in Barcelona have pasted posters calling for the release of Catalunya's former regional government, whom supporters of the disputed referendum consider 'political prisoners'.

CATALUNYA'S now-ex president Carles Puigdemont and four of his ministers who fled to Belgium this week have been arrested and their solicitors summoned to the Federal Police station on Brussels' rue Royal.

FORMER Catalunya regional president Carles Puigdemont and four of his ministers who have sought refuge in Belgium are now under an international arrest warrant and may have to be extradited within 60 days.

DEPUTY regional president of Catalunya Oriol Junqueras and eight ministers have been remanded in custody – all bar one without bail – charged with rebellion and sedition for their involvement in the disputed...

AT LEAST 2,000 people gathered in Barcelona's Plaça Sant Jaume today (Thursday) to protest against the criminal action being taken against Catalunya's now-ex regional government.

PROSECUTORS have urged Spain's National Court judge Carmen Lamela to issue an international arrest warrant for former Catalunya regional president Carles Puigdemont, who is currently in Belgium where he may be...