Headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights
Everybody in the world knows
that a dozen Catalan politicians are in prison. Many international journalists
who should (and do) know a lot better merely peddle the propaganda that is
provided by the Catalan government’s highly active international propaganda
wing Diplocat. One reason for this might be that they have willingly allowed themselves
to be bought by Diplocat; another is that it’s just so much easier to do so
than to get off their backsides and record the truth. One must never forget
Humbert Wolfe’s comment:
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.
However, once in a while there
appears an honourable exception to the rule. One such is this
article by Carlos Conde Solares, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Northumbria
University, Newcastle UK. This article not only describes the circumstances of
he trial correctly but also mentions the recent case that was brought to the European
Court of Human Rights by members of the former Catalan government appealing
against the closure of the parliament. This has gone unreported in the British media,
no doubt in part because it was issued only in the French language making it inaccessible
to British monoglots.
On May 28, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decreed that the temporary suspension of the Parliament of
Catalonia’s plenary in 2017 was a “reasonable response” to “an imminent need”
of peacekeeping. The ECHR described the actions of Spain’s constitutional institutions as
“necessary in the context of a democratic society’s preservation of public safety,
law and order, and for the protection of the civil rights and liberties of all
citizens.”
The ECHR ruled that the complaint made by the former
Catalan officials was “manifestly ill-founded” in that their own actions
effectively “prevented opposition MPs from carrying out their duty of
representation.” More recently, on June 12, the ECHR ruled out supporting the
defendants’ request to suspend their protective custody.
In brief, the Court took the
Catalans’ case, tore it into shreds, and chucked it straight out of the window
with the tart comment that it was “manifestly ill-founded”.
Source (in English)
New York GlobePost
(in French)
European Court
of Human Rights
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