Xavier Rius Sant is a Catalan freelance journalist and writer, specialized in human rights issues, international conflicts, the Arab world, immigration, far-right and terrorism. He has been a collaborator, among others, of the Diario de Barcelona, El Periódico de Catalunya, El País, El Independiente, El Mundo, El Observador, Avui, El Punt Diari, El Punt Avui and Nación Digital.1, as well as the weekly newspapers El Triangle and El Temps, and the TV3 program Planta Baixa.