Spain: 2 more Catalan separatists begin prison hunger strike

MADRID (AP) — Two imprisoned members of the Catalonia region’s previous government have joined two secessionist colleagues in a hunger strike to protest what they say is unfair treatment by Spanish courts.
Former Catalan infrastructure minister Josep Rull and Joaquim Forn, the ex-interior minister, said in a statement Monday that Spain’s Constitutional Court has blocked their appeals of being held in pre-trial custody for more than year.
They say that has prevented them taking