For example, the release or semi-freedom of prisoners convicted of serious crimes is suspended until the court rules on the appeal. Basque unions, along with Sare, have gathered in Bilbao to demand that “exceptionalism” be banned from prison policy.
The public prosecutor’s office can stop the release of prisoners if there is an appeal against the rank increase granted by the administration or the penitentiary supervision court, which remains suspended until the court decides on the appeal.
This would be one of the consequences of the application of the judgment made public by the Supreme Court on Thursday, which found that the prosecutor’s appeal against decisions, both judicial and administrative, that warrant the release or semi-freedom of prisoners who have been convicted of crimes implying Serious has suspensive effect until final judgment by the competent court.
A jurisprudence that will affect the third degrees that can henceforth be awarded to prisoners of the disappeared ETA, according to sources from the legal department of the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT).
The sources believe that in principle this Supreme Court decision would not be applied retroactively, i.e. it would not affect prisoners who already have access to the third degree and who are on semi-freedom or probation while the appeal is heard from the plaintiff
However, those who have access to that degree as of now will not be able to enjoy these prison benefits, if the district attorney has appealed, until the appeal is decided.
More than thirty inmates have recently been granted access to the third degree and not all cases have been appealed by the prosecutor.
For their part, the trade unions ELA, LAB, UGT, ESK, Steilas, CGT/LKN, CNT, EHNE, Hiru and Etxaldetogether with the citizen network Sarehave gathered in Bilbao this Friday in support of the demonstration for January 7 in the capital of Biscay, under the slogan ‘Etxera bidea gertu’, to demand that “exceptionalism” be banned from the prison policy applied to the prisoners.
Following a banner with the slogan ‘Etxera bidea gertu’ (The return home, close), the secretaries-general of the trade unions that make up the Basque trade union majority have gathered in Moyua Square in Bilbao in support of the demonstration organized by Sare el next has called January 7.
In statements to the media, the ELA General Secretary, Mitchell Lakuntza, has pointed out the need to “keep remembering that dispersion still exists”. For its part, the general coordinator of the LAB union, Garbine Aranburuhas explained that they are once again taking to the streets to “defend and defend the right of prisoners to return to their homes”.
The Secretary General of UGT-Euskadi, Raul Arzahas indicated that with this concentration we “claim another year of the need to end a conflict that has unfortunately lasted for many years”.
The LAB union has also demonstrated in Pamplona’s Casco Viejo to ask the prisoners to “come home”. Joseba Pagola, regional secretary of LAB in Pamplona, has indicated that it is “necessary” that “the exceptional measures in place for Basque political prisoners who are thousands of kilometers away from their families disappear”.
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