According to the Citizens’ Network, the 12 years that have passed since the end of ETA and more than four years since its self-dissolution, “is more than enough time to put attitudes and legislation in the service of peace, coexistence and resolution.”
the citizen network Sare has manifested his stake Through “work for peace, coexistence and resolution” which requires “the end of all expressions of exceptionalism”, with which “many years after” the end of ETA activity, “prisoners’ rights continue to be violated.” In addition, it has shown its willingness to “deepen consensus in the political, union and social spheres”.
In a performance at the Plaza del Buen Pastor in San Sebastián, Sare’s spokespersons Joseba Arkarraga And Go to Atxa have stated that for more than 34 years, Basque society has witnessed the end of the distancing policy, for considering it “cruel and inhumane and contrary to fundamental rights, in accordance with an already consolidated jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights”. A prison policy “causing great pain and suffering”, demanding reparation “from everyone” of those who were victims of it.
In this sense, they regretted that overcoming this removal policy “has not brought an end to the violation of the rights” of the prisoners.
Sare has criticized that the prosecution and courts judiciary have become “a political force in its own right” and have had an impact on the fact that some of them “systematically question the penitentiary policies followed by the competent authorities in the Basque Countryto rectify the decisions of the Penitentiary treatment boardsto the detriment of the prisoners when they oppose the decisions regarding rank increases and prison permits”.
According to him, “they do not act in defense of prisoners based on legal criteria, but rather based on decisions that reflect the perspective of the prison policy based on revenge, hatred and disrespect for the law”.
In this sense, they recalled that after the transfer of power to it, the Basque government developed its penitentiary policy over 18 months, detailing that “there are 42 prisoners who have approved their transfer to the third degree”, but 28 of them “this decision has been appealed and 12 have been readmitted to second-degree prison”.
After stressing that the Sare Citizen Network asked “at no point”. “no privilege for these prisoners”have emphasized that they have limited themselves to “demanding the application of an ordinary penitentiary policy that would put an end to rights violations”.
“Those who deliberately confuse this demand with impunity should be reminded that we are talking about people who have been deprived of their liberty for an average of 20 years or even some of them who have served more than 30 years in prison,” they said. gave up. .
Azkarraga and Atxa have emphasized that prison law “under no circumstances says that they must serve their sentences until the last day within the prison walls, without access to compliance modalities in an open regime, with greater contact with the society to which they belong”. “It is a democratic demand that cannot be constantly boycotted by exceptional courts, such as the National Court,” they added.
In this sense, they considered that “once their right to serve a sentence close to the family home is recognized, while they are admitted to prisons in Euskal Herria, Policies that prevent having a penitentiary practice that respects their rights, especially on probation or semi-freedom, must be stopped“.
They recalled that “more than 12 years since estimated time of arrival made the decision to post cease their armed activities and more than four since he decided to disband himself. More than enough time – they have pointed out – to put attitudes and legislation in the service of peace, coexistence and resolution.”
From Sare they have considered that their claim is “absolutely compatible with the necessary solidarity and respect that all victims should feel of all the violence perpetrated in our country.” “We owe them all respect and not the partisan use made of their pain, as a thrown weapon against the adversary,” they underlined.
Finally, they have assured that the network will continue to work “for an inclusive account of the violation of rights that have taken place in our country” because “there can be no first or second level victims” and it is “the only way to a society in coexistence”.
Source: EITB
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