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The High Court of Justice of Catalonia has dismissed banning yellow loops from Catalan government property. The loops are a symbol of support for the prisoners and exiles following last year's independence referendum. The lawsuit claimed they are partisan symbols which should be banned as against institutional neutrality.

The lawsuit was filed by the group Aixeca't/Levántate ("Rise Up") and was generic, applicable around all Catalonia, rather than against a specific instance. Public prosecutors had joined the case, whilst the Catalan government had asked for it to be dismissed. Today, the court has sided with the government. That means they don't have to remove the yellow loops, nor any other symbol of support for the prisoners and exiles. Nor are they banned from putting more up.

The plaintiffs called for the removal of yellow loops and "unequivocally pro-independence propaganda" from "public bodies, entities, vehicles, as well as the clothing of employees and public officials" of the Catalan government to "protect rights and basic freedoms". The court says that "it's necessary to consider that the generic locus standi established in the Jurisdiction Act in favour of corporations, associations, unions, victims groups, unincorporated unions and independent or autonomous estates doesn't cover pure interest for the law, except in limited cases of popular actions which is not the case here".

It continues that "none of the actions described influence the aims of the [administration] or affect it in any way, and it cannot be claimed, as is attempted, that the administration is acting against itself, since the petition submitted was at no time replied to and there is no administrative act which directly or indirectly recognises such locus standi".