Celtic League Supports Catalunya

October 30, 2017

The Celtic League welcomes the news that Catalunya has unilaterally declared independence from Spain (27th October 2017) and now proposes to peacefully begin the process of implementation.   We now hope to see the smooth and peaceful transfer of legal powers from Spain

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Spanish PM Reacts Badly to Belgian PM’s Comment on Catalunya

October 23, 2017

The Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, provoked an angry reaction from his Spanish counterpart following his comments about the situation in Catalunya, as reported in a Belgian newspaper last Thursday (19th October). The daily Belgian newspaper ‘Le Soir’ (a Walloon and Brussels paper

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Catalonia Fights for its Independence

December 5, 2012

News from Celtic League Election results in Catalonia last week have given further support to the Catalan nationalist cause and increased the likelihood that a referendum on independence will be called in the country at some point in the future. But, as the

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Spanish Colonel Threatens Catalunya with Military Action

September 3, 2012

News from Celtic Press The Spanish Defence Minister has been called on bytwo Catalan political parties to discharge with immediate effect a Colonel inthe Spanish army who has stated in an interview that if Catalonia becameindependent it would be threatened with military action.

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Spain relents and allows Prisons Report To Be Published

April 7, 2011

SPAIN RELENTS AND ALLOWS PRISONS REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED Spain has now agreed to the publication of the most recent report into the inspection of Police Stations and Prisons by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Following an exchange of

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Spain Declines To Allow Puublication of 2007 CPT Prisons report

February 11, 2011

The Spanish authorities have declined to allow publication of a Council of Europe inspection of Prison, Police and detention facilities in Spain. The Celtic League was alerted to the failure to make public the document when the Committee for the Prevention of Torture

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CPT Queried On 2007 Report Into Spanish Police and Prisons

February 11, 2011

With the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture due to carry out an examination of police stations, prisons and detention facilities in Spain this year the Celtic League has asked why the organisations report on its last visit has not been published

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Extradition Case Concerns

January 18, 2011

The Celtic League has received reports that a French appeal court has agreed to the extradition of a French woman to Spain for her activity in a political party that is illegal in Spain, but not in France. The decision to extradite the

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