by Jaz Allen- Sutton
ECPMF’s correspondent Jaz Allen Sutton is daily witnessing the violence and repression of press freedom surrounding the Catalonia independence referendum and has written this personal account...
Under Franco there was no freedom of speech. There was no media freedom and no protection of human rights. Despite the popular assumption that Spain has left its authoritarian past well behind, recent events in Catalonia suggest that Franco’s ghost still haunts the province.
Photo: Jaz Allen-Sutton
Wives talk about leaving their “fascist” husbands. Kids get bullied because of a particular association between a football strip and Spain. Accusations of aiding and abetting backstabbers…