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      1. Spanish prosecutor has published the sentences they are demanding for the political prisoners: @junqueras 25 years; @ForcadellCarme, @jcuixart, @jordialapreso 17 years; and 18 other accused for variously 16, 11, and 7 years. At every opportunity the state takes the hard line.
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      Parliamentarians accused of facilitating the approval of openly unconstitutional resolutions, laws, and judicial rules. Ministers accused of convoking and celebrating an illegal self-determination referendum that legitimises internationally its territorial segregration project.
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    The main charge is rebellion, legally defined as a violent uprising. To 'prove' violence happened the prosecutor cites: - the intimidatory force of the large mobilisation of the citizens. - the Catalan police with its 17,000 "armed agents under the orders of the secessionists."
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      They can't convict for rebellion without violence but this seems really thin as an argument. I'm not a legal scholar, but is it 'violent' that the people supported the referendum? Is it 'violent' for Catalonia to have a police force that takes orders from the justice minister?
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