Catalonia: journalists beaten by police in referendum clashes
By Jessica Jacques
Reporters have been beaten along with people attempting to vote in Catalonia’s independence referendum, which had been declared illegal by the Spanish government.
Catalanian journalists suffer exceptional situation
ECPMF’s member in Spain, the PDLI (Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información) is monitoring violations of press freedom and human rights in an online observatory created for these events.
A political journalist of the "El Periodico" news website, Xabi Barrena, was assaulted on Sunday by the National Police when reporting on the ‘1-0’ referendum at the Ramon Llull school in Barcelona, used as a polling station. The reporter was recording…
