During the week, nine political prisoners have been transferred and three other prisoners have been brought together.
- The Spanish Penitentiary Institutions have announced the rapprochement of Fernando Elejalde, GARIKOITZ Etxeberria and Iñigo Vallejo to prisons closer to Euskal Herria.
Fernando Elejalde will be transferred from Puerto I to Mansilla (León). Thus, Puerto I prison, one of the blackest prisons since the beginning of the dispersion, will be left without Basque political prisoners. In Puerto III, there are still nine. The Herrera de la Mancha prison remains without a Basque prisoner this week, according to the Basque Department. GARIKOITZ Etxeberria has been transferred from Sevilla to Dueñas (Palencia), to be expelled on the first day. Y Iñigo Vallejo Franco de Dueñas a Dueso (Cantabria).
The association of family members of prisoners, ETXERAT, has reported that there are seventeen seriously ill prisoners and has called for their release to receive adequate treatment for those diseases that they are not now guaranteed.
Most prisoners are already in grade 2
According to ETXERAT on its website, eight prisoners of eta, including Josu Urrutia, have been transferred this week. The Gasteiztarra prisoner Juan Carlos Subijana Izquierdo has been transferred from Leon prison (370 km) to Basauri prison; the Pamplona prison Josune Arriaga Martínez from Topas prison (460 km) to Pamplona prison. Urretxuarra Ainhoa Barbarin Iurrebaso has reached Zaballa prison from Picassent prison (600 km); Basauri Zigor Orbe Sevillano prison from Puerto III prison (1,020 km) to Zaballa prison; Gasteiztarzabariza prison Unai López de Okca
According to data produced by Berria, there are still 217 Basque political prisoners, 117 of 2018 have been brought to prisons in the Basque Country, and there are 31 prisoners in Euskadi prisons. Another fact has also changed for the better, although in practice all Basque prisoners have been in grade 1, the hardest of all, now there are 57 prisoners in that grade.
Hatortxu Rock jaialdiko 29. edizioa egingo da larunbatean Atarrabian. Sarrerak jada agortuta daude, baina txandak osatzeko laguntza behar da oraindik.
What surprised you the most when you left jail? I've been asked many times in the last year and a half.
See that the streets of Bilbao are full of tourists and dogs with two legs, for example? Or the changes in the political situation? The first one has tired me and annoyed me... [+]
