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Three jailed Catalan leaders appeal to UN panel: lawyers

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Three Catalan leaders imprisoned in Spain over their role in their region's independence crisis will take their case to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, their lawyers in London said today.

"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," lawyer Ben Emmerson said at a press conference.

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First Published: Feb 01 2018 | 5:20 PM IST

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