The pro-independence organization has rejected the reform announced by the Spanish government, arguing that it has the dual objective of “punishing pro-independence mobilization in the streets and making it easier to sanction events like those of 1-O”.
Euskaraz irakurri: ANCk sedizio delituaren erreformaren aurkako manifestazioa deitu du Konstituzio egunerako
The Catalan National Assembly (ANC) has convened for the next one December 6Constitution Day, a demonstration in Barcelona to demonstrate their rejection of the reform of the Penal Code announced by the Spanish government suppress sedition and replace it with “aggravated public disorder”.
As the pro-independence organization states in a statement, the legal reform “has a double undisguised objective, such as punish the pro-independence mobilization on the street and events like 1-O’s more comfortable penalizing for occupying facilities or buildings.
The demonstration is scheduled for next December 6 from noon and will end in front of the Palau de la Generalitat: “We cannot move this project forward, let alone the votes of our political representatives.”
PSOE and Unidas Podemos presented a reform that lowers this Friday in Congress from 15 to 5 years the maximum prison term for the felony of sedition, which disappears and is renamed “exacerbated public disturbance”with a maximum of eight years disqualification.
The ANC has defended that “while it is true that this sedition reform may reduce prison sentences for a few, it is no less true that it also facilitates and includes the application of the Penal Code and prison sentences to thousands of activists exercising the right to demonstrate”.
The pro-independence has indicated that the text presented explicitly states that the “invasion of facilities or buildings”, the “hinder of public roads endangering people’s life or health”, as well as any act “of harassment about people or things.
The organization has defended that this text “would imprison tens of thousands of people who enabled and protected the referendum on independence in public buildings and schools, as well as the thousands of people who, exercising the right to peaceful demonstration, blocked highways or public thoroughfares to warn the world of the repression of the Spanish state”.
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Source: EITB
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