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saturday 04 january 2025
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Alaitz Areitio leaves Rennes prison after 13 years in prison
- The Basque political prisoner Alaitz Areitio, born in Iurreta (Bizkaia), left prison in Rennes (Brittany) on 17 September, although he is currently confined to a hotel under the COVID-19 protocol.
According to the local press Anboto, on 17 September the Basque prisoner Alaitz Areitio was released after leaving the Rennes prison. According to the same means, at the moment it must be confined to a hotel in that city by the protocol established by COVID-19. He has been arrested since his arrest in 2007, first in Fleury, near Paris, and then in Rennes. She's the mother of a child.
According to Naiz, Areitio won a major legal battle in 2019, as in response to the appeal submitted by the French Constitutional Council it acknowledged that prisoners without French nationality also had the right to parole.
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