Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed a report by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) that called for the immediate release of 3 Catalan political prisoners – former vice-president of Catalonia, Oriol Junqueras, and two Catalan civil society leaders, Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez. All were arrested and […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has expressed his deep concern with the jailing of the Speaker of the Catalan Parliament, Carme Forcadell, and four other Catalan MPs by a Supreme Court Judge in Madrid. They have been charged with rebellion and sedition for facilitating a debate and vote in the Catalan […]
During Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Dáil today, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, raised ETA’s historic decision to decommission its weapons. He called for the Spanish and French Governments to respond positively to this development and for the Spanish government to address the issue of political […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has stated his concern after the Supreme Court in Barcelona found the former President of Catalonia, Arthur Mas, guilty of disobeying the Spanish Constitutional Court by holding a non-binding referendum on independence in Catalonia in 2014, fining him €36,500 and banning him holding public office for […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has expressed his party’s concern at the pending prosecution of Ms Carme Forcadell, the Speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia, by the Spanish authorities. Deputy Crowe said: “The Speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia, Ms Carme Forcadell, has been summoned to appear before the High Court on […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, attended an event to remember and commemorate the members of the International Brigades who fought in Spain during the country’s civil war of 1936 to 1939. Speaking at the event in Córdoba, Andalucía, Deputy Crowe told the crowd: “The men and women who joined the International Brigades […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has reiterated his support for the right of Catalan people to democratically decide their own future. Crowe was reacting to a Catalan Parliament vote in support of a pro-independence proposal presented by the cross-party list ‘Junts Pel Sí’ (Together for Yes) and the CUP party which […]
In the Dáil today Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, raised the arrests of 12 Basque lawyers with the Minister of State for European Affairs, Dara Murphy. Crowe called on the Minister to use his influence to express concern about the arrests and negative impact this will inevitably have on the fledgling […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has described the arrests in Spain of 12 lawyers who are involved in defending Basque political prisoners as provocative. Crowe, who is also a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, said that the move had the hallmarks of a securocrat […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has congratulated the organisers of an independence vote in Catalonia which had a turnout of over 2 million. Crowe said the huge turnout showed the growing demand and will of the Catalan people to vote on the future status of Catalonia, and the Spanish state needs to respect their […]
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