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`Calendari` de judicis 

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**Initially there were 712 mayors that the Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would investigate. It opened proceedings for 78 of them for disobedience to the Constitutional Court and in some cases also for embezzlement, for having provided municipal spaces for organising the 1 October’s referendum. Only those 78 are counted as victims of reprisals on this website**. Sixty-five of these cases have been filed. Four have come to trial, with two acquittals for the former mayor of Roses and the current Parliament of Catalonia MP and former mayor of Roquetes (still pending resolution of the appeal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office) and two convictions for the former mayors of Alcarràs and Agramunt, punished by fines and disqualification. For the mayors and former mayors of Argentona, Figueres, Sabadell, Collbató, Dosrius, La Ràpita, Castelló d’Empúries and Molins de Rei, the investigation is still open or pending an oral trial in the coming months.

Mayors investigated for organising 1 October

Several individual proceedings or ones involving a small group of people remain open. 

* Meritxell Serret and Anna Gabriel will soon face trial by the TSJC for disobedience; 
* Josep Lluís Alay continues to be investigated in the case for his trip to New Caledonia as director of President Puigdemont’s office; 
* Roger Español, a victim of police violence on 1 October, is still facing a case against him by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Professional Police Union (SPP); 
* Four firefighters from the Generalitat in the Parc de Girona are accused of abandoning their duties and embezzlement for sounding the sirens in front of the Guàrdia Civil barracks the day after the referendum (2 October 2017); 
* Seven activists are awaiting a new trial date after the first was suspended in the Provincial Court of Barcelona for the protest on 30 January 2018 for the failed investiture of President Puigdemont before the Parliament of Catalonia. Sentences of two to four years in prison were requested; 
* Joel Muñoz is facing a request for an exorbitant sentence by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of 18 years in prison and €11,000 in fines for computer crimes and disclosure of secrets in a trial that is expected to start any time; 
* On 23 and 24 November, 11 activists from Lleida will stand trial for protests over the arrest of President Puigdemont in Germany on 25 March 2018, a day for which other five people are still pending trial in Barcelona; 
* A case against an Empordà activist for rallying peacefully against Judge Llarena in Mont-Ras remains open with charges of assault on authority; 
* Cases arising from the first anniversary of October 1 in Barcelona remain open; 
* The demonstrations of 10 January 2018 in Girona ended up causing 21 arrests, of which four detainees are still awaiting trial with requests for sentences of four years in prison for each; 
* The arrests of 11 September and 1 October 2020 in Barcelona, ​​Lleida and Girona and the protests for the disqualification of Quim Torra on 28 September 2020 also continue under investigation; 
* And the Investigating Court of Tortosa continues with the secret investigation that the Guàrdia Civil has been carrying out since October 2017 against seven people from Terres de l’Ebre, Barcelona and Empordà who criticised the 1 October police violence on Facebook and were charged with hate crimes, threats, insults and slander against a Guàrdia Civil police officer.

Other open proceedings

**This case is investigated in secret by the National High Court**. So far, nobody has had access to the contents of the cause, despite wiretaps and monitoring made in the frame of this case led to the anti-terrorist operation that arrested Tamara Carrasco and brough Adrià Carrasco into exile. This case has also given information to add incriminations in the Operation Judas, where the defendants have recently succeeded in having their appeals estimated, to get access to the documentation, after the criminal chamber of the National High Court found that the investigation of the investigating judge violated the rights of defence.

Secret case 104/2017

**It has become the main case against the organisation of the 1 October Referendum**. It started in February 2017 with a single person investigated at first. The case went so far as to investigate 48 people, concluding with the current 27 and the three who have been referred to the TSJC because of their special legal privileges as Catalan MPs. A bail of 5.8 million was set and they have been prosecuted for the crimes of embezzlement of public funds, disobedience, forgery, disclosure of secrets and prevarication.

**The investigation of this case led to the arrests of 14 people on 20 September 2017 in different Catalan government ministries, and also to initiate the case against Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez that would end with their sentence by the Supreme Court**, together with nine members of the Catalan Government and the speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia. At the same time, this investigation has supported part of the case of Investigating Court no. 18 against 10 people, already investigated by the Court of Auditors, and some investigations by Investigating Court no. 13, resulting in an absolute lack of procedural guarantees denounced by the defendants.

Case against the referenum organization (Investigating Court no. 13 of Barcelona)

An investigation has been opened against 10 people prosecuted by the Court of Auditors and some also by Investigating Court no. 13 of Barcelona, following the complaint of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the result of the report of the Court of Auditors of 23 March 2019 on the foreign activity of the Generalitat (DIPLOCAT). They are being investigated for crimes of prevarication, embezzlement of public funds and forgery of public documents, turning this investigation into a double criminal prosecution for the same incidents already investigated by Investigating Court no. 13 of Barcelona, as reported by the defendants.

Case against the international activity of the Catalan government (Investigating Court no. 18 of Barcelona)

Proceedings followed before Central Investigating Court no. 6 of the National High Court by referral from Investigating Court no. 1 of Barcelona (Operation Volhov). The National High Court Magistrate is investigating the organisation of Tsunami Democràtic and its structure in a secret case where no access has been provided.

Secret Tsunami Democràtic case

**Adrián Sas**. The young man from Vilafranca del Penedès was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Barcelona and the TSJC confirmed three-and-a-half years in prison for assault on authority and injuries to a Mosso d’Esquadra police officer as part of the demonstrations for the anniversary of 1 October. He was arrested two months later. The Generalitat appeared in the proceedings as an accusation, despite having assured that it would withdraw. It is currently pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.

**Oriol Calvo**. He was identified on the night of October 15, 2019 by agents of the BRIMO of the Catalan police Mossos d'Esquadra, in the framework of the mobilizations in Barcelona against the Sentence that arbitrarily imprisoned the 9 social and political leaders, which had been known the day before. He was notified that he had to testify in court the days following. The prosecutor's office requested a sentence of up to 8 years in prison for a crime of assault on authority and another of public disorder. Finally, the Provincial Court gave absolute credibility to the versions of the Mossos agents who testified in the trial without more evidence or incriminating elements. Thus, Oriol was sentenced to 4 years and one month in prison. Currently, an appeal is pending in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

Sentences of more than two years in prison with open appeals

On 28 October 2017, the day after the Declaration of Independence of Catalonia, the Spanish Senate and government suspended the autonomy of Catalonia and all its institutions of self-government, ordering their administration directly from Madrid. The president of the Generalitat and his entire government were dismissed. Meanwhile, the Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement against the entire government and the National High Court summoned them on 2 and 3 November. At that time, President **Carles Puigdemont** and Catalan ministers **Antoni Comín** (Health), **Clara Ponsatí** (Education), **Lluís Puig** (Culture) and **Meritxell Serret** (Agriculture) were in Brussels (Belgium), placing themselves at the disposal of the Belgian justice system. The rest of the Catalan government was imprisoned by National High Court judge Carmen Lamela at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

**Marta Rovira**, secretary general of ERC, was charged by the Supreme Court with the alleged crime of rebellion for organising the Referendum, then conditionally released on bail. On 23 March 2018, Spanish Supreme Court Magistrate Pablo Llarena summoned her to review her procedural situation together with **Jordi Turull, Dolors Bassa, Raül Romeva, Josep Rull** and **Carme Forcadell**. All were imprisoned except Rovira, who went into exile in Switzerland.

On 21 February 2018, Magistrate Pablo Llarena summoned former CUP member and MP **Anna Gabriel** to the Supreme Court to answer questions about organising the Referendum with allegations of rebellion and sedition. Faced with a lack of guarantees to have a fair trial, she moved to Switzerland.

After different courts in Germany, Belgium, Scotland and Italy have disallowed European or international arrest warrants from Spain and questioned the impartiality of Spanish courts, Magistrate Pablo Llarena asked to refer various issues to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling on the validity of the European arrest warrants. The CJEU is scheduled to rule on the matter at the end of 2022.

Meanwhile, in January 2021 the Belgian judiciary ended up denying the extradition of the Catalan Minister of Culture, Lluís Puig, citing the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s resolution on the arbitrariness of the imprisonment of political prisoners and alleging the Supreme Court’s lack of jurisdiction to judge it. Due to President Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí’s capacity as MEPs, they enjoy parliamentary immunity, granted as a precaution by the Court of Justice of the European Union, following the European Parliament’s decision to accept the Spanish Supreme Court’s appeal to withdraw their immunity with the Spanish political parties PSOE, PP, Ciudadanos and VOX voting in favour exerting pressure within their parliamentary groups.

Meritxell Serret returned from exile on March 11, 2021 and appeared before the Supreme Court, which prosecuted her for a crime of disobedience. The case was referred to the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). In mid-September 2022, the Prosecutor's Office presented an indictment requesting one year of disqualification from holding public office and a €12,000 fine. There is no trial date yet. On July 19, 2022, Anna Gabriel returned from Switzerland appearing in the Spanish Supreme Court and testifying to the instructor Pablo Llarena on September 14, 2022. She is currently waiting for the Supreme Court to resolve her new procedural situation in relation to the crime of disobedience without any precautionary measure.

Exiles

**The investigating magistrate of the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJC opened an oral trial against the four pro-independentist members of the Parliamentary Bureau (2018-2021)**, Roger Torrent, Josep Costa, Eusebi Campdepadrós and Adriana Delgado, with requests for one year and eight months of disqualification and a fine of €30,000 for Torrent, Costa and Campdepadrós, and of one year and four months and a fine of €24,000 for Delgado, also the mayor of Sant Vicenç de Castellet (Bages). The case was filed by the prosecution, urged by the full Constitutional Court for the defendants’ possible disobedience to process decisions in favour of self-determination and against the king. The trial is scheduled between 5 and 7 October 2022, after the impartiality recusals of the magistrates Carlos Ramos and José María Barrientos (President of the TSJC) presented by the defense of Josep Costa, which led to the suspension of the different initial dates scheduled for the trial.

Bureau of the Catalan Parliament

**Once the sentence condemning the leaders of the independentist movement to nearly 100 years in prison was made public, the people staged a permanent protest with several street demonstrations between 14 October 2019 and the demonstration at Camp Nou on 18 December 2019**. Many of the cases remain open in different investigating courts across the country (Barcelona, Figueres, Girona, Granollers, Lleida, L'Hospitalet, Manresa, Mataró, Reus, Tarragona and more) or are pending trial by criminal courts and Provincial Courts. Many of the young people who were held in custody in different prisons in Catalonia are still awaiting trial and face requests for sentences of more than six years and in some cases up to nine and a half years in prison for disorder, attack on authority and damage.

**About 50 people are being investigated by Investigating Court no. 4 of Granollers** for blocking the C-17 motorway leading to town of L’Ametlla del Vallès as a result of the post-sentence demonstrations in an investigation with false identifications carried out by the Urban Crime Group of the Mossos d’Esquadra police of Granollers.

The cut off of the mobilization called Tsunami Democràtic between the towns of La Jonquera and Pertús on November 11 and 12, 2019 caused the investigation of a macro-cause that dragged two hundred people to the Figueres courts. As a result of a report from the Prosecutor's Office, **on September 6, 2022, the investigating court 4 ordered the file of the entire case and all those investigated, with the exception of a defendant for alleged attack on authority, together with the police officer who is investigated for an alleged crime of injuries against the protester. Three more people still have an open case for the cut of the AP-7 road in the town of Salt**, further from the Jonquera-Pertús. The rest fifty, were archived by the Court of Instruction 3 of Girona and confirmed by the Provincial Court after the Prosecutor's appeal against the archive.

**In different courts there are open cases resulting from the Tsunami Democràtic demonstration at Camp Nou on 18 December 2019**. A total of 14 people were arrested that day, plus two in later days, involving nine different courts between Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. A total of 8 people have been sentenced to between 18 months and two and a half years in prison for the crimes of public disorder and assault on authority, while the case remains open against the rest. Of the latter, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked for Víctor Verdejo to serve seven years in prison for public disorder, assault on authority and injuries, with a civil liability of €3,450, a fine of €1,800; and also from Generalitat of two years in prison, a civil liability of €3,381 and a fine of €1,800.

**The case initiated by Investigating Court no. 26 of Barcelona against Anonymous Catalunya for providing Internet support to the calls against the sentence of the Procés in the autumn of 2019 remains open**. The crimes charged include public disorder and organised crime.

Post-sentence demonstrations

**Proceeding followed before Central Investigating Court no. 6 of the National High Court under Magistrate Manuel García Castellón**. On 23 September 2019, nine people linked to the CDR (Defence Committee for the Republic) were arrested and seven were imprisoned for three months in the Spanish prison of Soto del Real. Subsequently in June 2020, four new charges were filed against four other people. In March 2022, the National High Court ordered the proceedings for one of them closed. The charges include being part of a terrorist organisation and possessing explosives in a startling story written by the Guàrdia Civil that seeks to criminalise the CDR.

Operation Judas

**On 28 October 2020, the Guàrdia Civil arrested 21 people and conducted 31 searches in what is known as Operation Volhov against pro-independentist business people and politicians for allegedly financing the Procés or projects like Tsunami Democràtic**. The lead judge of Investigating Court no. 1 of Barcelona is investigating them for alleged crimes of prevarication, embezzlement and money laundering.

Operation Volhov

On April 14, 2021, the President of the 11th Criminal Court of Barcelona acquitted the 5 members of the Electoral Commission of the disobedience and usurpation of public office crimes. This body formed by Jordi Matas, Marc Marsal, Tània Verge, Marta Alsina and Josep Pagés, was created by Law 19/17 and had the function of ensuring that the Referendum of October 1, 2017 had all the guarantees for a democratic and transparent functioning. Prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the 5 members of the Commission and between March 3 and 4, 2021, the trial took place. Once the acquittal was known, the Public Prosecutor's Office itself appealed the sentence alleging that her rights of defence had been violated by the judge and she had not properly assessed the evidence of the prosecution. On July 19, 2022, more than a year after the acquittal, section 8ª of the Provincial Court upheld the appeal and ordered a repetition of the trial, which is currently pending date.

Electoral Commission

**This highly politicised governmental and administrative accounting control body has been one of the most belligerent in its prosecution against the independentists. Lacking legal and procedural guarantees and acting completely partially, it has prosecuted up to 54 people, many of whom have already been investigated in parallel criminal proceedings**. 

The previous 80/19 process consisted of two sub-procedures: 147/18, referring to the expenses of the 1  October referendum, with 28 people investigated, who had been imposed a bail of €4.1 million; and 79/19, regarding the expenses of the Generalitat’s foreign activity, with 34 people investigated, who had been imposed a bail of €5.4 million. Eight of those investigated were prosecuted in both sub-procedures. 

In late 2021, the outgoing investigating magistrate merged the two separate sub-procedures into a single procedure. With the renewal and change of majorities within the Court following the agreement between the PP and the PSOE, the new Court accepted the guarantees of the Catalan Institute of Finance to make the payment of €5.4 million and avoid the seizure of property, though this had not been accepted by the previous investigating magistrate. In April 2022, the Public Prosecutor’s Office filed a case in the Court of Auditors for a total amount of €3.4 million, lowering the amount from the initial nine million and against a total of 35 of those investigated (including Carles Puigdemont, Artur Mas, Oriol Junqueras , Andreu Mas-Colell, Raül Romeva, Dolors Bassa, Jordi Turull, Toni Comín and Luís Puig), while Societat Civil Catalana presented a new case of €5.3 million to 11 of those investigated.

Court of Auditors

**The Spanish police injured hundreds of people throughout Catalonia on the day of the Referendum (1 October 2017), counting a total of 1,066 people who required medical attention**. More than 600 complaints were filed throughout Catalonia for the actions of the Spanish police for crimes of torture, injury, crimes against moral integrity, public order and the right to assembly and demonstration. As a result of these complaints, approximately 25 different cases were opened, with up to 180 police officers being charged and with the largest case being in Barcelona. Cases are still open in the courts of Girona, Manresa, Lleida, Mataró, Tarragona, Amposta and Barcelona, and to date no member of the state security forces has been convicted, nor has anyone politically responsible for the violence perpetrated against the people on 1 October.

**In most cases, individual prosecution is performed by volunteer lawyers, who in some places have formed an association**. Òmnium has played the role of public accusation in many of these proceedings, as have the ANC (Catalan National Assembly) and Iridia who have done so in Barcelona, and also have been public accusations the city councils of Girona, Aiguaviva and Sant Julià de Ramis in the Girona case.

Police violence of 1 October

The political violation of civil and political rights of the Spanish government against the Catalan self-determination movement has different levels and acts at different intensities, making it difficult to determine its ultimate scope. **State police forces** have used violence as a coercive measure to inflict physical harm on mobilized citizens, but also to intimidate society as a whole. The Spanish judiciary, for its part, has acted with all its might to weaken the entire movement: from its leaders to grassroots activism. A separate chapter has been the indiscriminate use of the Court of Auditors to try to ruin the lives of people who have worked diligently to promote the country and its future. Finally, this year it has been made public that state repression has no limits, from cyberespionage with Pegasus to the infiltration of national police into youth organizations.

The violation of civil and political rights had already taken place previously against the democratic attempts of Catalan citizens and institutions to exercise the right to decide. The first independence consultations carried out at the municipal level, which began on September 13, 2009 in Arenys de Munt; or the case throughout Catalonia for the November 9, 2014 consultation, are two relevant cases. The latter involved criminal prosecution with a conviction for disobedience of the President of the Generalitat (Artur Mas) and the councilors (Joana Ortega and Irene Rigau) by the TSJC and nearly 5 million euros against the three politicians, in addition to Francesc Homs and six senior civil servants for the costs of the consultation decreed by the Court of Auditors, a prelude to what occured after the Referendum of the 1st October 2017.

The figures presented below are a first approximation of a rights violation against an entire cross-cutting political movement. **This sets a scenario of living political conflict**.

A GENERAL CASE AGAINST `A POLITICAL MOVEMENT`

victims for exercising the right to vote in the referendum of 1 October 2017

exercise the right to peaceful assembly and protest in demonstrations (from 30 January 2018 to 21 December 2018)

438 victims for exercising the right to peaceful assembly and protest in demonstrations in protest against the sentence of the Procés (from 14 October 2019 to 18 December 2019), including 70 journalists and photojournalists

acts of fascist aggression against people due to their independentist ideology

THEY `BEAT US`

THEY BEAT US

people investigated for links to organising and supporting the Referendum

people investigated to exercise the freedom of expression

people investigated for demonstrating and exercising their right of assembly and protest 

people prosecuted for their links to separatist organisations or do social activism for the Catalan self-determination

people prosecuted for the Generalitat’s foreign actions

persons investigated in criminal procedures

THEY `TRY US`

THEY TRY US

people involved in administrative and accounting procedures

THEY `SUFFOCATE US ECONOMICALLY`

THEY SUFFOCATE US ECONOMICALLY

THEY `SPY ON US`

THEY SPY ON US

Violència policial; macrocauses iniciades per Fiscalia; intervenció de la Generalitat; detencions i empresonaments de líders polítics i de la societat civil com Jordi Cuixart, President d’ômnium Cultural; exili del President Puigdemont, de consellers i dirigents polítics; inhabilitació del President Torra, de diputats del Parlament i d’alcaldes; procediments penals contra càrrecs de la Generalitat, funcionaris i ciutadania; ofec econòmic a responsables polítics; sancions economicoadministratives; operacions contra organitzacions independentistes; vulneració persistent del dret de reunió, de llibertat d'expressió i de representació política; espionatge polític… 

Una causa general contra l’independentisme

MAP OF THE VIOLATION OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IN CATALONIA

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Since the self-determination referendum on October 1, the violation of the civil and political rights of Spain against the movement for self-determination has not stopped. Police violence, macro-cases initiated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the intervention of the Generalitat, arrests and imprisonment of civil society leaders such as Jordi Cuixart, former president of Òmnium Cultural; or politicians such as Oriol Junqueras, former vice-president of the Generalitat. The exile of President Carles Puigdemont, of political advisers and leaders; the disqualification of President Quim Torra, members of the Parliament of Catalonia and mayors. Criminal proceedings against charges of the Generalitat, civil servants and citizens. The economic suffocation of political leaders, administrative sanctions, operations against pro-independence organizations. The persistent violation of the right of assembly, freedom of expression and political representation. The largest case of political cyberespionage ever discovered…

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The state has been violating civil and political rights in Catalonia for years to safeguard the unity of Spain and the maintenance of the regime that sustains it.  Spain aims to intimidate and demobilize Catalan society, withdraw its opponents from political activity and discourage the self-determination movement as a whole through punishment. In short, to weaken the struggle for self-determination in Catalonia.

THE UNITY OF SPAIN, `AT ANY PRICE`

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5 years of violation of `civil and political rights`

There are currently around 500 people with an open criminal case, pending trial and/or on trial, some for more than four years.

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