Twelve independence leaders to be tried by Spanish supreme court
February 2, 2019. Published by The Irish Times.
Spain’s foreign ministry announced this week it was preparing to launch a campaign that would explain to the world, with total transparency, the details, as they unfold, of the trial of Catalan independence leaders due to begin this month.
Irene Lozano, secretary of state for the ministry’s Global Spain department, is charged with the task, which she said will include countering a torrent of “fake news” produced by the Catalan independence movement.
“We realise how much is at stake and we have to do this right,” she told EFE news agency.
“It’s clear that they want to discredit our democracy and the Spanish state as much as they can.”
Lozano’s comments underline the expectations that this trial, the most politically explosive in modern Spanish history, has generated…(See article)
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