Alfred De Zayas Urgent Action By The Eu Required In Catalonia

ALFRED DE ZAYAS, UN INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON THE PROMOTION OF A DEMOCRATIC AND EQUITABLE INTERNATIONAL ORDER 2012-18, FORMER SECRETARY OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE AND CHIEF OF THE PETITIONS DEPARTMENT AT OHCHR URGENT ACTION BY THE EU REQUIRED IN CATALONIA... More

ALFRED DE ZAYAS, UN INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON THE PROMOTION OF A DEMOCRATIC AND EQUITABLE INTERNATIONAL ORDER 2012-18, FORMER SECRETARY OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE AND CHIEF OF THE PETITIONS DEPARTMENT AT OHCHR URGENT ACTION BY THE EU REQUIRED IN CATALONIA Human right defenders in the EU must demand urgent action by the European Commission regarding the serious, persistent and systematic violation of the human rights Catalonians. Spain’s violation of Article 1 of the UN Charter and Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) concerning the self-determination of peoples is aggravated by the arrest of political, social and cultural leaders, their physical abuse, persecution and prosecution by virtue of the criminalization of the exercise of freedom of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association, as well as by the instrumentalization of the judicial apparatus for intimidation and repression, the denial the democratic right to participate in th Less