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Pro-independence Catalans protest in front of Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party (PP) headquarters in Barcelona as part of a regional strike is in response to the police crackdown during Sunday's independence referendum vote, which saw hundreds of people injured. IMAGES
Catalans protest for independence in Barcelona and demonstrate against the detention of pro-independence political leaders by Madrid as Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announces that his government will move to suspend Catalonia's separatist government. IMAGES
Catalan pro-independence groups block roads to protest a planned cabinet meeting in Barcelona chaired by a Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The weekly cabinet meeting usually takes place in Madrid but Sanchez's six-month-old Socialist government decided to hold it in the Catalan capital as part of its efforts to reduce tensions in Catalonia, which last year made a failed attempt to break away from Spain. IMAGES
As French President Emmanuel Macron and Spain's Pedro Sanchez ink a Franco-Spanish friendship treaty in Barcelona, thousands of pro-independence groups march towards the city's French Consulate in protest of the meet, shouting: "Independence!" and waving separatist flags. IMAGES
Protesters gather in front of FC Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium ahead of their La Liga game against Real Madrid, answering a call from pro-independence movement Tsunami Democratic to use the most famous football match in the world to advance claims for Catalan independence. IMAGES
Pro-Catalan independence protesters take to the streets after the European Parliament waives immunity of Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan MEPs. IMAGES
Indepedentists march in the streets of Barcelona, burning effigies of King Felipe and demanding independence for Catalonia. The annual "Diada" on September 11 marks the fall of Barcelona to Spain in 1714 and normally draws vast crowds of more than a million people, but saw more subdued ceremonies this year amid the pandemic. IMAGES
Protesters with the pro-independence movement block roads in Barcelona, causing traffic to come to a standstill. On Monday, hundreds of separatists shut down the busy motorway between France and Spain at the border in protest over the sentencing last month of nine of their leaders to lengthy jail terms. IMAGES
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