Barrena requires the assessment of sentences based on “self -incipations under torture”

EH Bildu’s Eurodiput Barrena Pernando He has the Pamplona this Sunday Overview of all convictions of prisoners of people whose sentences are based on “Self -compelling that are achieved under torture“In police units.

He Navarra Government recognized 21 other people this weekAmong them Barrena, as “victims of human rights violations”, under the protection of the Foral Law 16/2019 Recognition and repair of victims for acts of political motivation caused by extreme right -wing groups or civil servants.

In an appearance before the media against the parliament of Navarra, Berrena emphasized that “there were years in which the state used every type of exceptional measure to act against Basque independence.”

In this respect, he remembered “exceptional anti -terrorist laws, the illegalizations of political parties or, of course, also the white letter to the use of torture techniques against prisoners in police units.”

The Eurodiput has insured that About 1000 people were tortured in NavarraA circumstance that was “generally known to family members, of course friends, neighbors, acquaintances, etc.”.

“Everyone, apart from his ideological attribution, knew perfectly that being arrested for political motivation can easily be subjected to poor treatment and torture in police units,” he said.

Barrena has noted that some political leaders and the media ‘said that this was a lie, that the torture did not exist, that it was an invention and that it was something that was orchestrated, such as with some political intentionality to leave the security forces in a bad place. “

For this reason, he mainly appreciated Recognitions that the Navarra government makes. The aim of them, has emphasized, “to include the story of all the people who have been tortured and pass on that situation to the truth of the truthful, what happened, of the events. There are and then, from there, that from there assesses what he wants.”

He claimed that Torture “left many consequences to hundreds and hundreds of people”Both physically and psychologically, and left other consequences, such as those of the people who ‘were trapped with sentences with cars, the only evidence of which were the self -incipations that were achieved under torture, under threats, torn against the will of the prisoner in police units’.

“This situation is completely unfair and I think it deserves special attention. In short, to revise the beliefs of all these people who are still in prison and are in that situation,” he concluded.