Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas is acquitted from the doctrine of Strasbourg
- According to the ruling, at the time of incommunicado detention he was not entitled to appoint his trusted lawyer, so the magistrates acquitted the prisoner. Churches will have to remain in prison for other reasons.
The decision is based on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights last January in the case of the prisoner Xabier Atristrain. The Second Section of the Spanish National Hearing has now dealt with the issue of Churches and, true to the case law of Strasbourg, has argued that the Civil Guard did not give sufficient reasons to deny Chouzas the trustworthy lawyer during the period of incommunicado detention.
In this trial, Chouzas was charged with the murder of a Civil Guard in Bilbao in 1991, but the magistrates have been acquitted leaving the prisoner ' s statement incommunicado without effect. They have only taken into account the prisoner ' s statements before the judge.
Last March the National High Court again did the same with the prisoner Gorka Palacios and acquitted for another murder, as the testimonies received against him were also incommunicado.
And here is the shadow of torture, because these resolutions do not say that the statements received by the security forces were made under torture, but they say that the invulpates did so under torture, and the Strasbourg court and now the National Court have overturned those statements.
Henceforth, therefore, it appears that the National Court is going to issue resolutions along the same lines. Hundreds of prisoners were sentenced during decades of Basque conflict to imprisonment for many years with statements subject to torture, and it is now clear how the case law in Strasbourg will affect this past, especially those prisoners who are still in prison as a result of statements in isolation.
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... [+]
