数万人星期二晚上在巴塞罗纳举行抗议，反对西班牙政府监禁两名加泰罗尼亚分离派领袖。
示威者手持蜡烛和标语，要求释放桑切斯和伊夏特。他们两人被指控涉嫌煽动暴力而被监禁。检察官指控加泰罗尼亚文化协会主席伊夏特和加泰罗尼亚国民大会负责人桑切斯在上个月的独立示威游行中挑动对警察施以暴力。
加泰罗尼亚领导人称这两人是政治犯。西班牙政府否认这一指称。
星期二早些时候，西班牙高等法院裁决加泰罗尼亚的独立公投非法，还说支持举行公投的地区法律违反西班牙宪法。
加泰罗尼亚自治政府9月6号通过了“自决公投法”。西班牙高等法院说，在法院评估西班牙政府的反对意见期间，这项法律必须暂停实施。但是，加泰罗尼亚仍然于10月1号举行了公投。
根据法院规定，在法官作出裁决之前，该法律需暂停5个月执行。但是治理加泰罗尼亚的亲独立联盟声称，普世自决权高于西班牙法律。
Tens of thousands of people protested Tuesday night in Barcelona against the Spanish government's detention of two Catalan separatist leaders.
The demonstrators carried candles and banners demanding the release of Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, who are being held on possible sedition charges. Prosecutors accuse Cuixart of the Omnium Cultural movement and Sanchez of the Catalan National Assembly of provoking violence against police during a pro-independence march last month.
Catalan leaders have called the two political prisoners, which the government denies.
Earlier Tuesday, Spain's top court ruled Catalonia's independence referendum was illegal, saying that regional law backing the vote violated Spain's constitution.
The Catalan government had passed the "self-determination referendum law" on September 6. Spain's high court said the law must be suspended temporarily as it assessed the Spanish government's opposition to it, but Catalonia went ahead with the referendum on October 1.
According to court regulations, the suspension was to last five months while judges come up with a ruling, but the pro-independence coalition ruling Catalonia claimed that the universal right to self-determination outweighs Spain's laws.
