Strasbourg condemns Spain for not properly investigating the allegations of torture of Iñigo González
- On 19 January, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Spain did not properly investigate the allegations of torture of Iñigo González. For its part, Spain will have to compensate González with EUR 20,000 for damages. In that 2011 operation, the Civil Guard detained six members of the Civil Guard, accused of belonging to Ekin, five of whom reported torture. Prior to the complaint of torture by Gonzalez, Strasbourg took into account the complaint of two other detainees in that operation: Patxi Arratibel and Xabier Beortegi.
In 2011, the Civil Guard arrested Patxi Arratibel, Iñigo González, Iker Moreno, Gorka Zabala, Xabier Beortegi and Gorka Mayo on the orders of Judge Grande-Marlaska. Five of them reported torture (the only one who did not report torture was Gorka Mayo) and, in particular, Iñigo González reported having suffered blows, methods such as the bag and simulations of rape.
The allegations of Arratibel and Beortegi came to Strasbourg, and the Court of Human Rights acknowledged the credibility of the allegations of torture and in both cases condemned Spain for not investigating the allegations. He has now condemned Spain for the third time in this police operation: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today considered that Spain has violated the third article of the European Convention and that it has not properly investigated the torture reported by González.
The Spanish State must compensate González with 20,000 euros for "moral damages" within three months.
In this news we have gathered other information on cases of torture.
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