Catalan independence referendum

Chronicle of a crackdown on Catalonia’s independence vote

October 2, 2017Conflict

Journalist Gerry Hadden offers a firsthand look, from a Barcelona polling center, at Spanish police’s violent operations to disrupt the outlawed referendum on Catalan independence.

Riot police grab at a woman near a polling station for the banned independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. 1, 2017.

Spanish riot police fight to suppress Catalonia’s defiant independence vote

October 1, 2017Conflict

People hold Esteladas (Catalan separatist flags) as they wait for a closing rally in favour of the banned October 1 independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain.

Tensions heat up before Catalan independence vote

September 29, 2017Global Politics