The president of \u00d2mnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, has made clear that he is a political prisoner and that he will never stop exercising fundamental rights. \u201cI don\u2019t want to do it, and I cannot do it\u201d, he said. He also warned the Spanish Supreme Court that \u201cafter spending 500 days in prison, my priority is not to get out of jail, but rather to defend the fundamental rights and freedoms that have been violated by Spain in Catalonia as well as throughout the whole country\u201d.<\/strong> Throughout his testimony during the trial against the leaders of the Catalan self-determination movement that is currently taking place in Madrid, Cuixart has emphasized that he will never cease to make calls to \u201cdefend fundamental rights in a peaceful manner\u201d<\/strong> and has added that \u201cthe values of democracy are above the rule of law\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Regarding the events that took place on September 20, 2017, in front of the Catalan Ministry of Economy building in the run-up to the October 1 referendum, the president of \u00d2mnium has highlighted that all of the speeches and actions that he carried out were always peaceful. \u201cThe only violence was the one that was carried out by the Spanish police and the Guardia Civil on October 1\u201d<\/strong>, Cuixart stated in order to disprove the supposed violent nature of the civil society mobilizations on September 20. In this regard, Cuixart made an impassioned defence of non-violent civil disobedience as a mechanism for fighting against injustice and making society advance. After stating that \u201cthe October 1 referendum was the greatest act of civil disobedience in Europe\u201d, Jordi Cuixart said that he fully accepts \u201cthe consequences of civil disobedience within the principle of non-violence\u201d, citing the likes of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Gandhi, and Hannah Arendt as an inspiration.<\/p>\n In favour of dialogue and the right to self-determination<\/strong><\/p>\n Standing before the court, Cuixart has defended the right to self-determination in Catalonia. The president of \u00d2mnium has admitted that he was aware of the fact that suspended the law to carry out the referendum, but insisted that \u201cfaced with the suspension of fundamental rights we will always be in favour of fundamental rights because we will never give them up\u201d.<\/strong> According to Cuixart, \u201cthe right to strike is won by going on strike and in Catalonia, the right to vote is won by voting.<\/strong> What we did on October 1 was to exercise that right\u201d. In that regard, Cuixart has pronounced himself in favour of dialogue between Catalan and Spanish politicians in order to find a solution to the conflict between Catalonia and Spain and has recalled that 80% of the Catalan population is in favour of a self-determination referendum. \u201cA political conflict cannot be solved through judicial means\u201d<\/strong>, Cuixart emphasized, lamenting that \u201cpoliticians are not dealing with the challenges they face\u201d. The president of \u00d2mnium Cultural has highlighted that \u201cwe will celebrate all the referendums until we can make one without police violence and whose result may be implemented\u201d.<\/p>\n Cuixart did not answer the questions of the private prosecution, which represents the far right party VOX. The Supreme Court rejected the request of the defence of \u00d2mnium Cultural\u2019s president to expel VOX from the private prosecution. Cuixart considers that this political party is making fraudulent use of this legal process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president of \u00d2mnium Cultural warns before the Spanish Supreme Court that a political conflict cannot be resolved through judicial means The president of \u00d2mnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, has made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":184941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"post_headquarter":[],"post_project":[],"class_list":["post-184939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n