25 years ago the spanish police began to partly arrest and partly abduct catalans, most of them pro-independence. They where accused of being terrorists and/or supporting a terrorist organisation (the very most where not).

After three to four days of incommunication and torture, they where forced to confess a crime they never did to a judge. Some of the supposed terrorist would tell the judges that they had been tortured, but the judge would just ignore that.

This catalans had to fight a lot to see something close to a fair trial. This didn't happen until they brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg.