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The prison where Carme Forcadell, the former Speaker of the Catalan parliament, will serve a 11.5 year sentence for 'sedition' (Photo: Council of Europe)

Behind bars: a visit to an imprisoned Catalan politician

Mas d'Enric prison, near Tarragona in Catalonia, does not look like an ugly place - for external visitors like us.

You might even think that it is a nice-looking building if you didn't know it was a prison.

We walk along a glass corridor and a patio with well-kept olive trees before reaching a large room with glass walls, furnished with tables and sofas.

The glass w...

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Author Bio

Jordi Solé is a former MEP for Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC) and Stéphane Bergeron is Canadian MP for the Bloc Québecois.

The prison where Carme Forcadell, the former Speaker of the Catalan parliament, will serve a 11.5 year sentence for 'sedition' (Photo: Council of Europe)

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Author Bio

Jordi Solé is a former MEP for Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC) and Stéphane Bergeron is Canadian MP for the Bloc Québecois.

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