Catalan independence leaders given lengthy prison sentences by Spanish court

The group's members were found not guilty of rebellion according to Reuters. Prosecutors had sought 25 year jail terms for the rebellion charge, the AFP news agency reports.Oriol Junqueras, the former vice president of Catalonia, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and banned from holding pubic office for 13 years after being found guilty of sedition and misuse of public funds.

Read MoreFormer Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn and former territorial minister Josep Rull were both sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison and banned from holding public office, while influential grassroots activists Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, were sentenced to nine years in prison and also banned from public office. Three others -- Santiago Vila, Meritxell Borras and Carles Mundo -- were found guilty of disobedience, fined and banned from pubic office for 20 months.

Spain is a democratic country, anyone trying to seperate it is treason

You know, because democracies aren't supposed to consider the wishes of the people or anything...

320Revelation Very European.

kim_soler SpainIsAFascistState

It's worth noting that under Spanish law, with good behavior, etc., they will almost certainly serve little more than 1/3 of their sentences. So even Oriol Junqueras, who has the longest sentence, is unlikely to serve even 5 years.

Je trouve cet emprisonnement et ce verdict intolérable dans un pays comme l'Espagne ! Nous sommes en EUROPE

Appalling. Every geographically distinct people has the right to seek independence if they want it. Nothing of which they have been convicted should be a crime - gaoling them is the act of an oppressive empire, not a free democracy!

It shows how the Spain is governing by fascists

That's what happens when you break the law. Democracy is more than voting – in this case, in a simulacrum of a referendum with no procedural guarantees. Democracy depends on the rule of law. There can be no democracy without the rule of law.

the sentence against catalonia is an attack on freedom of expression, of assembly, it is a revenge that affects fundamental rights, it is a backward movement of democracy

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