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The continued imprisonment of pro-independence Catalan activist leaders Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart was brought up in yesterday's German government press conference with spokesperson Steffen Seibert. An RT journalist asked what Angela Merkel's government specifically thinks of the pair, still in pretrial detention facing charges of rebellion after almost a year. A German court earlier this year rejected the accusation of rebellion against president Carles Puigdemont.

Seibert wanted to avoid getting involved in the subject, repeating the habitual line that the case should be solved within the framework of the Spanish Constitution. He also said that they are "convinced that Spain is a democratic, constitutional state", completely unlike other countries like Venezuela or Cuba where they have used the term "political prisoners".