The Etxerat association has shown its "concern" about the situation of eta prisoners in the Basque Country. In particular, he highlighted the "harsh" situation of prisoners Jakes Esnal, Jon Kepa Parot and Frederic Haranburu Xistor. He recalled that they have long fulfilled the criteria laid down by law for probation, and that in recent proceedings the judges of first instance have opted for such freedom. "But the tendency of the systematic blockade of the anti-terrorist prosecutor's office is an obstacle to the solution," he added.

In the words of ETXERAT, the Public Prosecutor's Office's attitude not only affects prisoners, but "hardens and narrows" the reality that relatives have to live in. "For more than 30 years, the relatives of Jakes, Xistor and Ion Kepa have been travelling to prisons, with few handles for hope, without seeing the dates of their end for the future. Family members have also been condemned to lifelong punishment," he regretted.

The relatives of prisoners have denounced that it is "socially, politically and humanely unacceptable" to support a situation "as extreme" as the current one. "We want solutions that are not based on blackmail and revenge; we want solutions based on justice," he added.

They have also warned that maintaining the affective and family relationship between prisoners and their families in the midst of the pandemic "has become even more complicated". "The measures contemplated by prisons are to isolate and isolate a case of contagion. We question the management of the follow-up they would do inside and, as usual, the prisoners and their relatives are the losers." They have therefore called for no obstacles to be placed in the various avenues of freedom and for the release of seriously ill prisoners immediately.

Reduction of aid

Etxerat has given two information. On the one hand, since Adeline Hazan left the post in July, France has not appointed a prison inspector and, on the other, the International Prisons Observatory (OIP) has lost two-thirds of its aid in recent years. "The mechanisms that denounce and manage human rights violations are disappearing discreetly within society. We think it is serious if this objective is to be achieved.

ETXERAT underlined the "vital importance" of mobilising against this situation and thanked the Saturday pacifists for their action in Baiona. They have also called to participate in the protest that will take place on Friday in Donibane Lohizune (Lapurdi) to demand the release of Esnal, Haranburu and Parot. The participants called for mobilization for 19:00 hours in Plaza Luis XIV.aren, under the motto "30 years enough! ". Under the motto '.