Ion Kepa Parot leaves jail 32 years later
- Etxerat reports that the 71-year-old Bayonese prisoner Ion Kepa Parot was released from Murete prison on Thursday morning. He will continue to comply with the penalty at home with the electronic control bracelet. So after a year, Parot would get conditional release.
On 22 September, the Peacemakers reported that the Paris Call Hearing admitted the request for the defence of the conditional release of Basque prisoners Ion Parot and Jakes Esnal. And so on Thursday morning, political prisoner Ion Kepa Parot has left prison after 32 years of captivity. Etxerat stressed that "civil society in the Northern Basque Country has had a lot to do with the institutional and civic impetus for Parot's freedom". Despite the fact that defence lawyers have repeatedly claimed their freedom, the prosecutor’s office has obstructed him over and over again. In total, he has had to make six petitions until he has finally obtained the approval of the courts.
Parot was arrested in 1990, along with other robbers, on charges of belonging to the ETA Argala command. He was sentenced to life in prison, such as Jakes Esnal and Frederi, to Xistor Haranburu. In the case of Parot, to begin applying for conditional release of his option from the fifteenth year of imprisonment. Haranburu was released in November 2020, conditioned. It's going to take the days after the Esnal. Unai Parot, brother of Ion Kepa Parot, is the only one who will remain in prison of that sentence, as well as the last working prisoner.
In prisons dependent on the Basque Government, Basque political prisoners have lost a great deal in terms of communication with our family and friends. The number of monthly prefixes is lower and their duration is shorter. So, even if we get closer, we devote less time to the... [+]
Plataforma herritarrak gaur egun arte lortutakoaren balioa nabarmendu du, eta adierazi du gizarteak “bultzada bat” eman behar duela “oraindik erbestean eta deportazioan daudenak” etxeratzeko. Etorkizuneko belaunaldiei gizarte hobeago bat uzteko garrantzia... [+]
Bi edizio baino ez zaizkio geratzen elkartasun jaialdiari. Antolakuntzak iragarri bezala, ohiko jaialdia eginen dute abenduaren 28an, eta 2025eko uztailean lau eguneko jaialdi berezi baten ostean, agur esateko une gazi-gozoa helduko da. Aritz Colio Hatortxuko antolakuntzako... [+]
I've thought if Palestinian children also have this question in their head with our book. How many duels are missing to end the genocide? How many children should Israel kill with the complicity of the states of the world.
Are you going to ask these questions to your mothers? Or... [+]
Badira sei-zazpi urte kartzelan dauden presoek euskara ikasteko duten eskubidea bermatzeko helburuarekin, lanean aritu den euskara-irakasleen sare bat: Presoen Euskara Irakasleen Taldea.
On the occasion of the International Day of Political Prisoners, held on 17 April, the signatories of this paper wish to take advantage of the part of the prominence that corresponds to us on this date to launch some lines.
It is a sign of the existence, conflicts and political... [+]
