People protesting the heavy jail sentence handed to Catalan separatists who failed in their independence bid in 2017, in Barcelona, Spain last night. Catalan protesters are taking a page from the playbook of Hong Kong protesters. – EPA pic, October 20, 2019.
FROM blocking airports to using encrypted messaging apps, Catalan separatists demonstrating against the jailing of nine of their leaders are openly copying tactics devised by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Shortly after Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan leaders to prison terms of up to 13 years over their role in a failed 2017 independence bid, 240,000 users of Russian-designed messaging app Telegram received a message urging them to head to Barcelona’s El Prat airport, Spain’s second busiest.
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