Thread by @assemblea_int

⬛️⬜️🔴 We are live! Debate on Human Rights and National Minority Rights in the #Spanish State & the #EU, organized by @anc_de & @dieLinke

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#StandUpForCatalonia

@krls: “Spanish authorities do permanently use its legislation not to protect, but instead to attack and violate fundamental rights of its national minorities, and to repress its members”

@krls: “In 2017 Catalonia held an independence referendum. To some extent this was also a matter of basic rights, and a Catalan response to Spanish failure to break up with its fascist legacy, and to reform towards a real democratic regime and an effective decentralization”

@krls: “During those weeks Spanish government sent thousands of military police to Catalonia to repress voters, while the EU kept silent. As a consequence of the vote, we declared independence, and Rajoy’s government unlawfully suspended Catalan self-rule and institutions”

@anamirandapaz: “The persecution for alleged terrorism against peaceful Galician activists is a new attack against freedom of expression, and does represent a new evidence of justice manipulation in Spain and of the continuity of the Francoist legacy“

@anamirandapaz: “Post-Francoist fascist in Spain is visible in the media, institutions, in the existence of organizations such as Franco Foundation, but also when it comes to the economic power, where several CEOs of major Spanish companies are descendants of Francoist leaders”

@anamirandapaz: “International press has denounced the corruption of Spanish monarchy before Spanish press itself. During many years it has been a forbidden issue in Spain. In addition, Spanish monarch has played a very negative and agressive role during the Catalan crisis"

@krls: "Nothing has changed under Sanchez government. Repression keeps going, there are still political prisoners, persecution against freedom of expression has not ceased, as the Valtonyc case shows. There is no room for changes if they are supposed to come only from goodwill".

@krls: “Spanish embassies do systematically boycott the foreign presence and action of Catalan institutions. Spain prefers to harm the interests of the Catalan economy and of its citizens, before allowing Catalonia to develop bilateral relations with economic partners abroad”

@zaklinnastic: “Spain is ahead of Iran and Turkey in terms of persecution of artists. Valtonyc is exiled in Brussels. Looks like Poland and Hungary are required to comply with democratic standards by EU institutions, while Spain is not”.

@krls: “It is necessary to end double standards. Poland and Hungary are right when complaining that there is another EU member not complying with treaties. Nobody criticizes Spain, despite what international bodies such as UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention have expressed.”