Txell Bonet, wife of Jordi Cuixart, and Anna Forn, daughter of Joaquim Forn, have this Tuesday denounced the situation of the Catalan political prisoners in the British Parliament. Also at the event were the MPs from the All-Party Parlamentary Group on Catalonia (APPG on Catalonia).
Forn was Catalan interior minister and Cuixart the head of the pro-independence organisation Òmnium Cultural. Both have been held in pretrial detention for months over their roles in the independence movement.
The chair of the APPG, Hywel Williams, of Welsh pro-independence party Plaid Cymru, also spoke during the event, denouncing the lack of separation of powers in Spain and "how politicised the Spanish judiciary" is.
"I was shocked to see no division division of powers and how politicised the Spanish judiciary was"
— ANC England (@ANCEngland) 10 de julio de 2018
[Hywell Williams MP]
By now, everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition. pic.twitter.com/yp4tlpb6jE
La sala de House of Parliament, Westminster (London) es queda petita amb Txell Bonet i Anna Forn, dóna de Cuixart i filla de @quimforn, explicant als representants polítics britànics la situació dels presos polítics catalans.#LlibertatPresosPolítics@ANCEngland @assemblea pic.twitter.com/CQMYjDSiau
— Sergi Novo (@sergi_novo) 10 de julio de 2018
Translation: The room in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, results small with Txell Bonet and Anna Forn, Cuixart's wife and Forn's daughter [respectively], explaining to the British political representatives the situation of the Catalan political prisoners.
The group formed in early 2017, inaugurated by then-Catalan foreign minister Raül Romeva, who today is in prison alongside Cuixart and Forn. It has around twenty members from a variety of parties, from Plaid Cymru and the SNP to Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.