Jordi Cuixart

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Jordi Cuixart

Jordi Cuixart i Navarro (born April 22, 1975 in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda ) is a Catalan activist and entrepreneur . Since December 2015 he has been President of the Catalan cultural organization Òmnium Cultural . Because of his work in the context of the Catalan independence movement, he was charged with "rioting" in 2017 and sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison.

Career

Cuixart comes from a working class family. He attended the Escuela Industrial de Sabadell.

In 2004 he founded Aranow Packing Machinery , a Catalonian company specializing in packaging , of which he has been President ever since.

Cuixart joined the cultural organization Òmnium Cultural in 1996, of which he has been president since December 2015 as the successor to the Catalan Prime Minister Quim Torra . He was confirmed in office in June 2018 while in custody.

Legal proceedings and verdict on the occasion of the Catalonia crisis from 2017

Òmnium Cultural is one of the most important mobilization platforms in the context of the Catalan independence movement since 2017 . After the unauthorized independence referendum on October 1, 2017 and the unrest in those days, Cuixart was on custody on October 16, 2017, together with Jordi Sànchez , President of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) , for "riot" (span: sedición ) taken. They were accused of leading a group of more than 40,000 demonstrators to obstruct police measures against the independence referendum planned for October 1, 2017, on the night of September 20, 2017.

On October 14, 2019, he was sentenced to nine years in prison as part of the criminal proceedings against 12 Catalan politicians for “riot” (span: sedición ). The public prosecutor had also sued for a conviction for “rebellion” (span: rebelión ) and demanded a prison sentence of 17 years.

Responses to the detention and the verdict

Amnesty International and PEN International protested the detention. In its report of June 13, 2019, the UN Working Group against Arbitrary Detention criticized Cuixart's imprisonment and called for his release. She found violations of the "exercise of human rights" and the "principle of a fair trial" and categorized the detention as "unlawful and discriminatory".

Amnesty International criticized Cuixart's conviction and again asked for his release. Even if there are no indications of an unfair trial, the "too broad and therefore dangerous" interpretation of the crime of riot violates Cuixart's right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. The World Organization Against Torture demanded Cuixart's release on the same grounds . On May 6, 2020, the Spanish Constitutional Court accepted Cuixart's appeal (Recurso de Amparo) against the judgment.

Works

  • with Gemma Nierga: Tres Días en la Cárcel: Un diálogo sin muros . Plaza & Janes Editores, Barcelona 2019, ISBN 978-84-01-02363-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 22 d'abril: És l'aniversari de Jordi Cuixart. Retrieved October 26, 2019 (Catalan).
  2. ↑ Perfil Villa. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ferreres: Jordi Cuixart: "Ens falta un gran conglomerat industrial". February 3, 2014, accessed October 26, 2019 (ca-ES).
  4. ↑ Perfil Villa. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jordi Cuixart, la nueva cara del feudo de la burguesía. October 16, 2017, Retrieved October 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ^ Jordi Cuixart, proclamat nou president d'Òmnium. Retrieved October 26, 2019 (Catalan).
  7. ↑ Júlia Regue: Jordi Cuixart, reelegido presidente de Òmnium Cultural. June 16, 2018, accessed October 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ Jordi Cuixart, la nueva cara del feudo de la burguesía. October 16, 2017, Retrieved October 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ a b Fernando J. Pérez, Óscar López-Fonseca: La juez envía a la cárcel a Jordi Sànchez y Jordi Cuixart, líderes de ANC y de Òmnium, por sedición . In: El País . October 16, 2017, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed October 26, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Oriol Solé Altimira: Abogados catalanes creen que la jueza se ha inventado un tipo delictivo para encarcelar a Sànchez y Cuixart. Retrieved October 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ Ediciones El País: Quién es quién en el juicio al procés catalán. October 14, 2019, accessed October 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  12. ^ Document. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  13. ^ PEN International: Statement on the imprisoned Catalan writers and civil society leaders. January 21, 2019, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria: Opinions aprobadas por the Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria en su 84º período de sesiones. Consejo de Derechos Humanos (UNO), June 13, 2019, accessed on May 16, 2020 (Spanish).
  15. ^ Conviction of Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart threatens freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  16. ↑ World Organization Against Torture OMCT: The case of Jordi Cuixart through the lens of international human rights standards on the right to peaceful assembly. June 2, 2020, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Amnistía Internacional España: ¿Por qué Sànchez y Cuixart deben ser puestos en libertad según el derecho internacional? Retrieved June 2, 2020 (European Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Cuixart, Jordi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cuixart i Navarro, Jordi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Perpètua de Mogoda