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I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.
I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.
We won't stop protesting. It's the engine that moves society forward.
As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.
For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.
I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.
It's the Spanish state which should say sorry for violating the right to protest and freedom of expression.
Anything against the state's interests, through a non-violent action, is susceptible to be considered sedition.
I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.
Do you really think that the Catalans will end their struggle for their right of self-determination because of a legal decision?
The pro-independence movement has all different social sensibilities - from left to right, including pro-liberal, socialist and communist.
If you attack our democratically elected representatives, you attack our institutions, all our people and our sovereignty, and we will never allow that.
The cause of self-determination in Catalonia is no different to other citizen causes that fight for a fairer, more democratic future, as we've seen in Chile, Lebanon and Hong Kong.
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.
We are European citizens, as we are European citizens it means what we want to do is exactly like Scotland or Quebec. The difference is that the United Kingdom and Canada they are democratic countries. Spain today is not a democracy and this is the main problem.