http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20191025-172917-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/constitutional-conflicts/ Constitutional Conflicts - A reply to José Luis Martí on the Spanish Supreme Court's judgment convicting Catalan secessionist leaders Ferreres Comella, Victor eng 2019-10-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Catalonia secession Spanish Constitution Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Can the actions perpetrated by the leaders of the secessionist movement be understood to be crimes under Spanish law? Does the Spanish Constitution or international law protect those actions in the name of fundamental rights, including the right to protest? The Spanish Supreme Court deals with these issues in its lengthy opinion. A reply to José Luis Martí's assessment of that decision.