The trial of 12 pro-independence Catalan leaders, which came to an end on Wednesday, was criticised as unfair by Catalonia’s president Quim Torra

As the trial of Catalan leaders draws to a close, the Catalan president is seeking an “urgent meeting” with Pedro Sanchez to discuss the findings of the UN working group on arbitrary detention

Your key questions on Spain’s General Election answered

THE Spanish elections on Sunday [28 April] has produced a fragmented political picture across Spain, and an uncertain situation in terms of how a coalition to govern will be formed.

CommonSpace answers some of the key questions about the result and what it means in just 1000 words.

Who won?

While Spain’s political establishment tries to shut down the constitutional crises ripping the country apart, CommonSpace speaks to Basque candidate for the Spanish Congress Bel Pozueta

YESTERDAY [22 April], Spanish voters watched the first televised debate between candidates ahead of Sunday’s general election.

Oriol Junqueras denounces the “cowardice” of Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez for refusing dialogue with pro-independence parties

As several imprisoned Catalan politicians announce their intention to stand in April’s Spanish elections, the former Catalan president says it is time to “internationalise” Catalonia’s self-determination struggle

The far-right Spanish party Vox will accuse the Catalan independence movement of a “coup d'état" at the European Parliament in March, while an event featuring Catalan President Quim Torra and former president Carles Puigdemont has been banned

As Iceland becomes the first nation-state to publicly express concern to Spain over the trial of Catalan leaders, Scottish minister reiterates support for “the people of Catalonia to determine their own future”

To deny the political dimension of the Spanish judiciary and its crusade against Catalonia’s political prisoners is to deny reality

EVERYTHING is political. Whether openly acknowledged or not, much of the world has gradually come to accept this argument, once the reserve of radicals and liberationists only. The personal and the philosophical, the artistic and the economic; war and peace, identity and nationhood…Law and justice.

12 Catalan politicians face trial for their involvement in the 2017 independence referendum