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| Spain Court Frees 14 ETA Members under Rights Ruling |
| 2013-11-27 |
[An Nahar] A Spanish court on Tuesday freed a further 14 nabbedBook 'im, Mahmoud! members of Basque armed separatist group ETA, a court source said, under a rights ruling that has outraged victims' families. Spanish media said those freed included Javier Martinez Izaguirre, who was convicted of an attack that killed a toddler in 1991. Many Spaniards are outraged by the release of ETA prisoners convicted of deadly shootings and bombings in a violent campaign for an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern La Belle France. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled last month that Spain had acted illegally by retroactively cutting short the years of remission that an ETA prisoner had earned from good behavior. Dozens of other ETA members who had their remissions cut short under the same policy have since been released under the European court ruling. "Today 14 imprisoned ETA members have been freed on the order of the National Court, under the Strasbourg ruling," and the prisons had been ordered to free them immediately, said a court source who asked not to be named on Tuesday. In October 2011, ETA declared a "definitive end to armed activity" but it has not formally disarmed nor disbanded as the Spanish and French governments demand. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 And you should be packing JFM. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-11-27 17:32 |
| #2 Yes. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-11-27 17:31 |
| #1 It is not about rights it is about retroactivity. Summary: Somewhat in the 70s Franco's regime in, order to try to congratiate with European countries introduced a new Criminal Code who was a liberal's dream. One of its tenets was that even if you were sentenced to a million years in jail you would only serve thirty years. Add to it you could redeem serving time by the most egregious ways: washing floors, taking classes and even by playing soccer and this was calculated basing on ypur million yeas sentence but on the 30 years cap. But Franco died and terrorism (virtually unxistant during the dictaorship) thrived along with crime. After more than fifteen years resisting changing the law the socialist party ended changing it to "pain reductions are calculated on the sum of the years you have been sentenced to". Ie if you play soccer you will redeem 3 of your 4952 year sentence. Then Spanish government tried to apply the new law to people who had already been sentenced. Since laws, and specially crimal laws are, not supposed to be retroactive a female terrorist ppealed to the Human Rights Court and this ordered her to be released. Like very sentence it aonly applied to that particular case ie she was the only one to be released. But the Spanishg Governement has been releasing them by the dozzens along with serial kilelrs and rapers. Aren't you glad your ancestors moved to America? |
| Posted by: JFM 2013-11-27 09:09 |