Thread by @ANCEngland

APPG on Catalonia chair @HywelPlaidCymru presents the event “Report on Catalonia” with @josepcosta

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SNP MP @ronniecowan , member of the @APPGCatalonia , explains his recent visit to Lledoners and his meeting with @jcuixart and other political prisoners “If the UK had acted like Spain did, I would also be in prison”.

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Conservative @janeforan , Assistant to the public point of contact of APPG on Catalonia, explains her visit to @ForcadellCarme in Catllar prison.

MP @janeforan remembers the strength of @ForcadellCarme, who is terribly isolated in Catllar prison. "Carme allowed a vote to take place and would do it again despite her unfair suffering".

@josepcosta reports on the repression im Catalonia:

“The list time a member of the British Parliament was charged for his political activities was in 1668.

This is what’s happening now in Catalonia. 24 Catalan MPs are facing charges now, in 2019”.

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.@josepcosta: "Since 2010 Catalonia has been governed by a fundamental law that has not been accepted by the vast majority of the people, but imposed by a politically biased constitutional court. This is why we are here being prosecuted for defending democratic rights."

“There’s no other country in the European Union which keeps elected members of Parliament in jail, only Spain”.

.@josepcosta: "We don't see any new willingness or ability in the new Spanish government. It is undeniable that there is a regression in democratic rights, separation of powers, independence of the judiciary system in Spain".

MPs from 5 different parties of the British Parliament, MP advisors, journalists, a former UK consul to Barcelona, the President of CatalansUk among the assistants who fill in the Wilson Room of the Houses of Parliament, organised by ANC-England.

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.@josepcosta: "Since there is no fundamental law in Spain nobody seems to care that if there is a change of the Spanish government the autonomous government of Catalonia will be eliminated, these are not democratic conditions."

Josep Costa in Westminster:

“Catalan independence parties should not help pass the Spanish budget and this debate should end as soon as possible”