Prestigious lawyer Ben Emmerson announces that is representing Catalan political prisoners appeal to the UN

“It belongs to a bygone era in Spain’s history.” Jailed Catalan leaders' cases are taken to the United Nationa. According to British lawyer Ben Emmerson and his team, the preemptive imprisonment of the Catalan leaders undermines the fundamental rights of a peaceful political movement."Their imprisonment by Spain clearly falls foul of international law." said Ben Emmerson, QC, a British lawyer, specialising in European human rights law Re. application to the UN. Emmerson announced today in London that British human rights lawyer who will bring the case of Catalan political prisoners before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The detention of Jordi Sànchez, Jordi Cuixart and Oriol Junqueras is a clear case. "'Their detention by Spain is an affront to human rights, designed to prevent them from performing their role as political representatives of the Catalan people". Emmerson has made it clear that the Spanish judiciary is politically biased or still dominated by an authoritarian mindset that drives them to bend the law in ways that would impossible in any (other) modern democracy." “A serious blight on Spain’s claim to democracy.” “The chilling effect of detention is being played out as we speak.” Emmerson was the lawyer of Marina Litvinenko as well as UN human rights lawyer Ben Emmerson visitin Sri Lanka among others.