Jordi Cuixart i Navarro was born on 22 April 1975 and is a Spanish businessman and cultural activist from Catalonia.
16 Facts About Jordi Cuixart
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Jordi Cuixart was the president of Omnium Cultural, a non-profit cultural organisation founded in 1961 with more than 190,000 members and 52 local branches in Catalonia, from December 2015 to February 2022.
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In October 2019, after two years of pre-trial detention, Cuixart was sentenced to nine years of prison for sedition.
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Jordi Cuixart was freed in June 2021 following a government pardon.
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Jordi Cuixart was born in 1975 in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda.
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Jordi Cuixart's mother hailed from Murcia and his father from Badalona.
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Jordi Cuixart lived in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda for 30 years before moving to Sabadell, where he remained until his imprisonment in 2017.
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Jordi Cuixart is co-founder and chairman of FemCAT, a private foundation of Catalan businesspeople.
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Jordi Cuixart became the treasurer and later vice-president of Omnium Cultural as an associate to Muriel Casals, who first became Omnium's president in 2010 and was re-elected to the post in 2014.
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Jordi Cuixart succeeded Muriel Casals as president of Omnium in December 2015, after she stepped down in July of that year to stand in the forthcoming Catalan election.
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Jordi Cuixart promoted, among others, the Lluites compartides campaign, with which he wanted to promote the shared historical memory of social mobilization processes that, in different areas and moments of time, have been decisive in shaping what is today Catalonia.
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Jordi Cuixart continued the organisation's involvement in the political developments leading to the Catalan independence referendum of 2017.
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In July 2018, Jordi Cuixart was transferred to a prison in Catalonia.
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On 14 October 2019 Jordi Cuixart was found guilty of sedition and given a nine-year sentence.
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In June 2021, Jordi Cuixart was freed together with other eight politicians imprisoned in connection with the Catalan independence referendum following a government pardon.
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Jordi Cuixart replied that he had not asked for any measure of pardon because everything he had done, he "would do it again", and he demanded an amnesty.