Catalan government reported to the UN for “infringement of rights"

The United Nations Human Rights Council

A report is being made to the United Nations Human Rights Council denouncing the state of human rights in Catalonia.

The Asamblea por una Escuela Bilingüe warns of

“numerous examples of infringement of rights, lack of democratic guarantees and abuses” in policy areas under the control of the Catalan government, especially cases of “repeated flouting of court rulings” by the regional and local authorities and “the use of schools as a tool of identity-building”.

Impulso Ciudadano describes

a breakdown of “essential” democratic values that affect fundamental rights of people who do not share the positions of the nationalist parties that exercise power in Catalonia.

Their report explains in detail that

“the regional government and Catalan local authorities discriminate against people who do not share nationalist points of view” in a number of fields.

It also denounces:

“arbitrary arrests” of people who remove pro-independence yellow ribbons placed illegally in public spaces;

“interference in private life” by accessing personal data to make the roll for the illegal referendum in 2017);

“infringement of the right to honour and reputation” (essentially, libel and slander) by describing dissidents as fascists or falangists;

And a failure to guarantee such basic aspects as:

“freedom of opinion and expression” by disrupting events held by constitutionalist organisations and parties; “freedom of assembly”; the “right to education” by banning Spanish as the language of teaching and political indoctrination in classrooms.

Source

(Spanish)

ABC

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(Catalan government reported to the UN for “infringement of rights")