Prisoner Iñaki Bilbao 'Txikito' resumed his hunger strike on 6 August. In addition to the hunger strike, he is also on a communication strike. This is not the first time that the prisoner has taken this path of struggle and this time continues with the same goal: "Independence and socialism for the Basque working class and for the Basque Country".

The state of health worsened, so he was transferred last week to the hospital in Salamanca, against his will. In a statement released on Wednesday by the Pro-Amnesty and Anti-Repression Movement (MOVIMIENTO Pro Amnesty y Contra la Repression), he warned that "he is in an extreme state of alarm."

In addition, the movement has criticized the admission to a hospital center by force: "For Basque political prisoners on hunger strike it is not new to feed themselves forcibly and against their will. The aim of this measure is to bend the will of Basque prisoners, to deal with similar cases, to deny the status of political prisoners and even the reason for their imprisonment: The occupation and exploitation of the Basque Country and its working class".

In September last year he also carried out a hunger and communication strike, for a total of 50 days, until he was admitted to a hospital. In November he would go on hunger and thirst strike again and there he was also admitted to the hospital.

Prisoner since 2002

Bilbao 'Txikito' is 65 years old and has spent the last nineteen years in prison. Today he is imprisoned in Topas, 460 kilometers from Euskal Herria. Precisely, the Spanish penitentiary institutions communicated their approach on July 1, when it was in the Port of Santamaría, a thousand kilometers from Euskal Herria.