Protesters rally outside prison to demand aquittal of jailed Catalan separatist leaders
Record ID:
1436527
Protesters rally outside prison to demand aquittal of jailed Catalan separatist leaders
- Title: Protesters rally outside prison to demand aquittal of jailed Catalan separatist leaders
- Date: 13th October 2019
- Summary: SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 13, 2019) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF WOMAN SEATED ON FLOOR CLAPPING AND SHOUTING (Catalan) "ACQUITTAL" PROTESTERS CLAPPING AND SHOUTING (Catalan) "ACQUITTAL" / HOLDING BANNERS READING (Catalan) "FREEDOM POLITICAL PRISONERS / #DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI, THE FORCE OF THE PEOPLE" VARIOUS OF MEN WITH RED CLOWN NOSES SHOUTING (Catalan) "ACQUITTAL" PROTESTERS CLAPPING AND SHOUTING (Catalan) "ACQUITTAL" / HOLDING BANNERS READING (Catalan) "FREEDOM POLITICAL PRISONERS / #DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI, THE FORCE OF THE PEOPLE" WOMAN, DRESSED WITH A YELLOW SWEATER READING (Catalan): "FREEDOM", SHOUTING (Catalan) "ACQUITTAL" (SOUNDBITE) (Catalan) 47-YEAR-OLD PROTESTER AND SCHOOL WORKER, GLORIA (SURNAME NOT GIVEN), SAYING: "We come to say good night to the prisoners and to wait for the acquittal and that we do not have to come other times, because this is already a nonsense." (SOUNDBITE) (Catalan) PROTESTER AND CULTURE COUNCILLOR OF SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, JORDI PESARRODONA, SAYING: "As a people we do not agree with what the Spanish government does, we have already told them that, always within pacifism, with a smile on our face, we would continue stubbornly raised until they be absolved and that we will build, either way, this Catalan republic because now there is no going back." PEOPLE CLAPPING, SHOUTING (Catalan): "ACQUITTAL" AND HOLDING BANNERS READING "(Catalan): "FREEDOM POLITICAL PRISONERS / #DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI, THE FORCE OF THE PEOPLE" MAN WITH A CLOWN NOSE SHOUTING (Catalan): "ACQUITTAL" DETAIL OF PROTEST SIGN MAN WITH A CLOWN NOSE SHOUTING (Catalan): "ACQUITTAL" AND HOLDING BANNER READING (Catalan): "THE STREET LAMP" PEOPLE CLAPPING, SHOUTING (Catalan): "ACQUITTAL" AND HOLDING BANNERS READING "(Catalan): "FREEDOM POLITICAL PRISONERS / #DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI, THE FORCE OF THE PEOPLE" WOMAN CLAPPING, SHOUTING (Catalan): "ACQUITTAL" AND WEARING A SCARF WITH PRO INDEPENDENCE FLAG PEOPLE PLACING BANNER ON GROUND AND SITTING DOWN
- Embargoed: 27th October 2019 20:40
- Keywords: Catalan jailed Catalan separatist leaders Catalonia Lledoners jail protest demonstration
- Location: SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, SPAIN
- City: SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0XL3YF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Around a hundred people gathered outside a jail in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, north of Barcelona on Sunday (October 13) in support of jailed Catalan separatist leaders.
Spain's Supreme Court plans to convict and sentence the Catalan separatist leaders to a maximum of 15 years in prison over a 2017 bid for independence, a judicial source said on Saturday (October 12).
The charges stem from the leaders' role in an October 2017 referendum, which was held despite being ruled illegal by Spanish courts, and a short-lived declaration of independence that followed in Spain's most economically important region.
Protesters rallied outside Lledoners jail shouting for the acquittal and freedom of their political leaders.
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