"We then went to a smaller town, Sant Andreu de la Barca, to a health centre, and when we arrived the Guardia Civil had just left. They had broken down the door of the health centre and attacked people with batons. There were a lot of older people crying ... We spoke to a local councillor who said that when the Guardia Civil came to take the ballot boxes, he asked them for a warrant, and they just pushed him out of the way."
— Joanna Cherry

January 1, 1970

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Cherry acted as one of international observers during the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and was invited by Diplocat, the public diplomacy council of Catalonia, but Diplocat was not recognised as an international observer by the UN. In September, it had been suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain and the High Court of Justice of Catalonia had issued orders for the police to prevent the illegal referendum.