Barcelona City Council's Presidency commission has today approved a motion calling for the elected officials Oriol Junqueras, Joaquim Forn and Jordi Sànchez, as well as the president of Òmnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, in preventive detention without bail near Madrid, to be moved closer to Catalonia.
The institutional declaration, promoted by Barcelona en Comú and undersigned by PDeCAT, ERC, CUP and the independent councillor, also expresses support for the families of the prisoners, who mayor Ada Colau will receive soon, the council has announced.
The text says that "the application of a precautionary measure like preventive detention makes the normalisation of the political situation in Catalonia more difficult" and emphasises that choosing a distant prison implies "a social punishment which violates the rights recognised in International Law and attacks human rights".
As such, they argue that, assuming they are not to be released, "for reasons of humanity, their transfer should happen immediately".
The Presidency commission has also approved a proposal from the CUP to create a commission to develop a project to show "the police brutality of 1st October, but also the popular self-organisation which made it possible for the referendum to be carried out and which visualises the situation of repression which is being carried out by the Spanish state, with political prisoners and legal persecutions".
En Comú supported holding a referendum on Catalan independence, whilst not being in favour of independence itself.