The independence movement does not miss the opportunity to use any comment from a world political leader that comes as a ring to the finger to insist on its demands and thus again demand the departure of sovereignists sentenced by the Supreme Court for sedition serving sentence in Catalan jails. A few days ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged all administrations to "work quickly to reduce the number of people detained" due to the coronavirus emergency situation and focused on prisoners in "Deplorable hygiene conditions and health services are often poor or non-existent." In addition, he demanded the release of "any person detained without a sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners and those detained for expressing critical or dissident opinions," a request similar to the one he made in late February, when the case had not yet been extended. health crisis due to coronavirus, and in reference to Venezuela.

However, the president of Òmnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, used these words of Bachelet to argue his request to the Constitutional Court (TC) to pass the confinement outside the prison, specifically at his home, while the situation of alarm by the coronavirus. Cuixart considers that being confined in his cell in Lledoners without being able to go out to work at his company, as he did every day for the application of article 100.2 of the prison regulations "can cause him irreparable damage of an incontestable magnitude". Since the state of alarm was decreed, prisoners have been unable to leave prisons in the semi-free situation they had and must remain inside to avoid spreading the virus.

Cuixart indicated that he runs his own company in the current socio-sanitary crisis from a cell in Lledoners prison and only with brief 8-minute calls. In addition, in his letter he takes the opportunity to regret again the "disproportionate criminal treatment" of the Supreme Court for his sentence of 9 years in prison "for defending and exercising fundamental rights". Òmnium Vice President Marcel Mauri also called on "the powers of the state" to stop "making a fool of themselves on an international scale and to side with democracy and human rights". Mauri believes that “in the face of this pandemic, it is unthinkable that the political prisoners who were sentenced simply for defending fundamental rights, are now those who have to suffer a new double punishment, that of remaining in prison, and that of being away from their families in these difficult times that we live as a society ».

Cuixart's request comes after the Constitutional Court received an appeal 20 days ago to suspend his sentence. For this reason, his lawyers recall that the court itself "has issued an agreement that enables it to adopt precautionary measures and resolutions in those cases where it is required to protect fundamental rights" in cases of "extraordinary emergency."

Also the Minister of Justice ,. Ester Capella, used the words of Bachelet to claim again, on behalf of himself and the Govern, the amnesty of the sovereign leaders convicted of sedition. He also assured that it is an "unjust sentence" and that "not now, not before . They should never have stepped on any prison.

DISPATCHED OVER 50,000 EXPIRED MASKS IN PRISONS

The Justice Department will distribute to Catalan prisons about 50,000 expired respiratory protection masks, but whose use is endorsed by the Ministries of Health and Labor, to replace the surgical ones that were delivered a few days ago. They are masks from stocks that have exceeded the manufacturer's designated "useful life" and meet ministerial criteria in the face of the "shortage" of available personal protective equipment. They will also distribute another 11,000 masks to the prison population.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Cultural Òmnium
  • Supreme court
  • constitutional Court
  • Venezuela
  • Jordi Cuixart
  • Reviewable permanent prison
  • Catalonia

Courts All sovereign prisoners can now be released in semi-freedom

CourtsThe Prosecutor's Office opposes Oriol Junqueras' release from prison

'Procés'First protection to the TC: Josep Rull, Jordi Turull and Jordi Sànchez ask to suspend their sentences