Two Catalan Political Prisoners began a Hunger Strike

The hunger strike of the MPs of Junts per Catalunya (JxCat, Together for Catalonia) began today and has the support of the president of the Generalitat in the Exile Carles Puigdemont. The former chairman of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC, Catalan National Assembly), MP from JxCat and promoter of the Crida Nacional per la República (CNR, National Call for the Republic) Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Turull has announced the measure. Turull is former Catalan Minister as well as MP from JxCat and promoter of the Crida Nacional per la República (CNR, National Call for the Republic) has he has joined the fast.
The family members and the lawyers of the prisoners have already been informed of the action. The initiative will be limited to 15 days of fasting and a protest of an indefinite nature is ruled out. The protest calls to the Spanish Constitutional Court to resolve their their judicial remedy paralyzed for a year. Without this response from the Constitutionalist, Catalan political prisoners can not go to the European Court of Human Rights.

The hunger strike is not the first time it has been used by the ANC as a form of protest. At the end of 2017, activists from Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) carried out a similar action, also to demand the release of "political prisoners", with little echo. The ANC wants to try again, this time with one of the prisoners who has spent more time in prison, more than a year.

 

Jordi Sànchez, first on theleft, and Jordi Turull, third