Yes just like England carpetbombed Glasgo to stop the Scottish referendum.
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IIRC, you have the right to leave in peace, use your language, autonomy and not be discriminated but declaring independence is quite a few steps above that.
You can't say there isn't freedom of speech in Spain when even people convicted for terrorism speaks in public media everyday.
Spanish authorities asked the registry to block domain names that were being used to spread information about an upcoming referendum for independence.
I can understand why the opposition would be pretty pissed off about that infringement on their free speech rights.
But maybe you were joking or something. Saying "Everybody can speak about the referendum in Spain" and then immediately contradicting yourself is ironic.
For years Catalonia has formally requested for this right to be exercised in different ways, and the Spanish government has made every effort to stop any possible way to channel this right. This has continued until today, when the Spanish militarized police has raided the Catalan institutions and arrested members of the Catalan government that was elected with the mandate to let Catalans exercise this right in spite of the official Spanish position, which it's trying to do through a referendum where both positions in favor and against independence may have equal opportunities to be heard.
Spain has always defended that this right to self-determination is confined to colonies because it would otherwise conflict with the also very important principle of territorial integrity. However, the International Court of Justice explained in its Advisory Opinion of 22 July 2010 regarding the case of Kosovo that “the scope of the principle of territorial integrity is confined to the sphere of relations between States”. Thus, even unilateral declarations of independence do not conflict with the aforementioned principle: “general international law contains no applicable prohibition of declarations of independence“.[0]
Sure, you can declare all day but who will recognize you and if it's "illegal" in the country you want to leave, you will be jailed. If they do the ethnic cleansing that Serbia did in Kosovo then, you may have a better chance internationally. Changing of borders is frowned upon, almost every country has their own issues.
Once again, if 100% of your human rights can be exercised with broad autonomy, no sane country will support your independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_move...