Catalan port workers express their solidarity with jailed separatist leaders

Record ID: 1437281

  • Title: Catalan port workers express their solidarity with jailed separatist leaders
  • Date: 18th October 2019
  • Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 18, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PORT WORKERS WITH YELLOW VESTS MARCHING WITH POLICE IN THE HEAD OF THE MARCH PORT WORKERS MARCHING AND SINGING "FREEDOM FOR IMPRISONED POLITICS", JOURNALISTS FILMING PORT WORKERS WALKING PORT WORKERS WALKING AND SITTING ON THE GROUND PORT WORKERS SITTING ON THE GROUND PORT WORKERS SITTING ON THE GROUND AND CLAPPING HANDS VARIOUS OF PORT WORKERS SITTING ON THE GROUND, CLAPPING HANDS AND SINGING "NOT EVEN A STEP BACK" VARIOUS OF PORT WORKERS CHANTING "DON'T TOUCH OUR PEOPLE" (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PORT WORKERS SPOKESMAN, ALBERT GILL, 50, SAYING: "They have cut off our freedom of expression and the freedom to demonstrate and now they have put one more thing in this sentence, because it is not an issue of Catalonia or politics, they are beginning to mix a demonstration with a non-violent demonstration, with sedition. Union representatives and all those people who want to fight for their rights are censored and can fall into what we have seen now, a sentence that instead of going for a demonstration goes for sedition. Firstly, our rights are violated and secondly, we are totally defenceless." PORT WORKERS WITH A SIGN READING (Catalan): "PORT WORKERS FROM BARCELONA IN FIGHT" AND SINGING "FREEDOM FOR IMPRISONED POLITICS" PORT WORKERS SINGING "NOT EVEN A STEP BACK" PORT WORKERS CHANTING "DON'T TOUCH OUR PEOPLE" WITH A MEGAPHONE, SIGN READING (Catalan): "PORT WORKERS FROM BARCELONA IN FIGHT" AND SINGING "FREEDOM FOR IMPRISONED POLITICS"
  • Embargoed: 1st November 2019 10:47
  • Keywords: Port workers catalan separatist independence Spain Catalan march catalan protesters
  • Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
  • City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B1MK1TZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Dozens of port workers from Barcelona joined the general strike in Catalonia on Friday (October 18) to protest Monday's (October 14) supreme court ruling that jailed nine Catalan separatist leaders for up to 13 years.
    Wrapped in their reflective yellow vests, port workers marched from Barcelona's port to Via Alienate, where they sat on the ground and blocked one of the Catalan's capital main roads.
    "Firstly, our rights are violated and secondly, we are totally defenceless" said Albert Gill, a port worker spokesman.
    Hundreds of thousands of protesters are marching from five different Catalan cities to join the protest in Barcelona against the sentences to the separatist leaders.
    Major roads were blocked off across Catalonia on Friday (October 18) and several main streets in Barcelona were closed to traffic in anticipation of the marches, as well as picket lines that had begun springing up, while regional trains and the city's metro were running on a reduced timetable.
    (Production: Miguel Pereira, Lorena Cabral)
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