The Przemysl Regional Court has granted the prosecutor’s request to extend González’s prison sentence by three months. Family, friends, journalists’ associations and political parties have expressed concern about “the lack of transparency in the case”.
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The journalist of Basque descent Pablo González has met three months in preventive and incommunicado detentionas he was arrested on the Polish-Ukrainian border on 28 February while reporting on the war in Ukraine and its aftermath.
From that moment on remains incommunicado, without his trusted lawyer or his family being able to talk to him. Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) accuses him of being an agent of Russian military intelligence.
In addition, the Przemysl Regional Court (Poland) this week approved an extension of three months his preventive and incommunicado detention, as confirmed by his lawyer in Poland, Bartosz Rogasa. The court granted the prosecutor’s request and did not give any further explanation
González’s defense has announced resource against the resolution. As explained by Rogasa, that country’s law does not allow the court’s justification to be made public: “The arrest hearing was part of the preliminary proceedings and therefore remains secret.”
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Relatives, friends, journalists’ associations, including the editors of EITB, have denounced the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Pablo González.
In March, the Council of Europe called on the Polish government to release González and drop the charges against him. The International Press Institute, for its part, expressed “concern at the lack of transparency in the matter”.
In April, family and friends started a signature campaign on change.org calling for their rights to be respected. Nearly 38,000 signatures have now been collected.
Recently, the journalist’s wife, Oihana Goiriena, and her lawyer in Spain, Gonzalo Boye, appeared in the Parliament of Navarre to denounce the situation “extremely legal” and the Spanish government’s inaction to “restore their rights ” regrettable.
Spanish government president Pedro Sánchez assured in April that he was following the process “very carefully” and said the journalist himself had asked for certain aspects of the case not to be disclosed.
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Source: EITB
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