MADRID (AP) — The Latest on independence efforts in Spain’s Catalonia region (all times local):

News reports says Spanish police have arrested 12 people in raids on offices of the regional government of Catalonia as a crackdown intensifies on the region’s preparations for a secession vote that Spain says is illegal. Hundreds of people gathered to protest the raids and shout pro-independence slogans outside offices in the region’s capital, Barcelona. MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended a watered-down vote on independence in Catalonia scheduled for Sunday, a move certain to stoke frustration among Catalans, most of whom favor a referendum.
Spanish police raid Catalan government offices and arrest Catalan officials as part of the effort to halt a banned referendum on independence. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont says, "The Spanish state has by all rights intervened in Catalonia’s government and has established emergency rule."