The Catalan pro-independence association Amnistia i Llibertat (“Amnesty and Freedom”, ALL) has defended Spain’s proposed amnesty law before the UN Forum on Minority Issues, held this Thursday and Friday in Geneva, while the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) has denounced the “criminalization of the Catalan people” at the same gathering.
In the sixteenth edition of this meeting, with the participation of member states, NGOs, United Nations agencies and experts in the defence of human rights, ALL warned of “threats from the Spanish right and extremism” to the bill for an amnesty on Catalan independence-related prosecutions that is currently being considered by Spain’s Congress of Deputies. For this reason, the associations called on the international community to support the measure.
