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Two Catalan separatists in Spanish custody | |
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A Spanish judge has remanded two key members of the Catalan independence movement in jail. | |
Jordi Sánchez, who heads the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), and Jordi Cuixart, leader of Omnium Cultural, are being held without bail while they are under investigation for sedition. | |
The men are seen as leading figures in organising a 1 October independence vote, which Spanish courts suspended. | |
The government in Madrid branded the vote illegal. | |
Hours before High Court judge Carmen Lamela ruled that the two men should be held in pre-trial detention, the court freed the head of Catalonia's police force, Josep Lluis Trapero. | |
Prosecutors had called for him to be held in detention. |