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.
torture Afficher plus
The tortured people are still hurt, even if all this shit happened 25 years ago. But at least some of them, even after haven get through this horrors, choose to not to shut up and explain, that torture is still a thing.
Finally, once I met on of this people who decided to bring their cases to Straßburg. I would love to send him some comfort words, and to thank him for his bravery, but I don't know what exactly I should say. I wish I could just hug all of them, if they wish.