The Latest: Catalan secession activists demand EU's support

SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the trial of Catalan separatists in Spain (all times local):

7:15 p.m.

Hundreds of Catalan independence activists have blocked the entrance to the European Commission offices in Barcelona and others started a sit-in inside.

They demanded European Union support for the Catalonia region's efforts to break away from the rest of Spain and chanted, "Self-determination is a right, not a crime" during the Friday demonstration.

Earlier in the day, nine politicians and activists who are being tried for their roles in a 2017 secession attempt were transferred from prisons in Catalonia to Madrid prisons. They are scheduled to go on trial in Spain's Supreme Court later this month.