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Jaume Asens

A lawyer specialising in human rights and defence of social movements, he is a member of the Defence Commission of the Barcelona College of Lawyers, of the Research Group on Exclusion and Social Control (GRECS), and also of the Observatory of Social, Economic and Cultural Rights at the University of Barcelona. He has provided legal representation for several groups in cases of torture, corruption, real estate mobbing, and also for victims of crimes against humanity. He is presently working with the Constituent Process platform and the Podemos (We Can) initiative, which promotes direct citizen participation. He writes for the publications Público and eldiario.es and he has published books including La bestia sin bozal. En defensa del derecho a la protesta (The Beast Unmuzzled: In Defence of the Right to Protest, Catarata, 2014).

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