MADRID—Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said Feb. 14 he was a political prisoner and insists his region had the right to secede from Spain.
Junqueras is the most prominent of 12 Catalan leaders being tried at the Supreme Court since Feb. 12 over a failed independence bid in 2017, in a landmark case that has laid bare deep social divisions and triggered Spain’s biggest political crisis in decades.
