⬛️⬜️Instead of acknowledging Spain’s structural democratic deficits, Juan Carlos I accuses Catalans of “disloyalty” and “intolerance”. These memoirs reveal the monarchy’s inability to accept pluralism. A democracy that refuses to confront its past cannot be called consolidated.

⬛️⬜️The former king devotes significant space to attacking Catalonia. He admits he feared peaceful Catalan self-determination movements more than armed violence, and labels the 2017 referendum a “coup d’état,” contradicting Spain’s own judiciary.

⬛️⬜️This is part of the Catalangate scandal, the largest case of political espionage in Europe, affecting at least 65 Catalans.
Assemblea will continue pursuing all legal actions to hold Spain accountable. No democracy can tolerate illegal surveillance of peaceful activists.

⬛️⬜️Declassified documents reveal that Catalan leaders were surveilled solely for legitimate political activity, violating Spanish law, which only allows such intrusion within criminal proceedings and under strict necessity and proportionality.

⬛️⬜️In the 3rd panel Ariane Heinz called on the UN member states to:
✅Defend the right of peoples to self-determination.
✅Support a binding intl instrument on minority rights.
✅End the criminalisation of peaceful activism.
✅Combat hate speech and discriminatory narratives.

⬛️⬜️ We reaffirm what @arihv.bsky.social has stated at the UN Forum on Minority Issues: “Self-determination is the only democratic way to overcome the structural discrimination the Catalan people continue to face.”

A reminder: self-determination is not a threat to peace; denying it is.

⬛️⬜️ 1st panel claims:
-Spain denies Catalonia’s right to self-determination
-Restrictions on Catalan language in education, justice & public admin undermine equality
-Peaceful activism is criminalised, despite UN bodies warnings
-Hate speech against Catalans weakens coexistence

⬛️⬜️🗣"Unresolved injustices from the dictatorship still constrain Spain's democracy today. Refusing to allow peaceful, democratic self-determination, the state perpetuates the same patterns of suppression it never addressed through transitional justice" - @arihv.bsky.social.

⬛️⬜️ 50 years on, Catalonia still faces the consequences of an incomplete democratic transition.
Our commitment is clear: defend civil & political rights, expose democratic deficits, and work toward a future where Catalans can exercise their right to decide their political fate.

⬛️⬜️Spain presents itself as a “model democracy” but the reality tells another story:
- Political prisoners & exiles after the 2017 referendum
- Systemic obstacles to freedom of expression & assembly
- Criminalisation of peaceful dissent
These are not signs of a healed democracy.

⬛️⬜️ We see right through France's determination to keep control of this territory—while pretending to comply with the United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence of Colonial Countries and Peoples, overseen by the Special Committee on Decolonization.