Freed Catalan leader calls on Spain to ‘think about future generations’

Jordi Cuixart and eight others leave prison after being pardoned for their roles in the failed bid to secede in 2017

The head of one of Catalonia's biggest pro-independence groups has urged the Spanish government to think about future generations and not just parliamentary stability" as he and eight other separatist leaders were released from prison after being pardoned for their roles in the failed bid to secede almost four years ago.

Jordi Cuixart, the president of the influential grassroots association Omnium Cultural, said he was pleased to be free after serving more than three-and-a-half years of a nine-year sentence for sedition.