POINT MADE
Hunger Strike: don’t look away
It’s 14 days and counting that Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Turull have spent now, without ingesting anything other than water, a protest to which Josep Rull and Joaquim Forn signed up two days later. This is an extreme measure aimed at drawing attention to the blockade by the Spanish Constitutional Tribunal, by way of prevarication, which prevents the political prisoners from accessing the European Court of Human Rights. It makes the Spanish government uncomfortable, and they are doing their best to look away, having opted for a policy of encouraging attention away from the hunger strikers. It would be nice if neither the Catalan government of the pro-independence parties made this so easy for the Spanish.