They are Diego Ugarte López de Arcaute, Iurgi Garitagoitia, Juan Carlos Besance, Zigor Bravo Saez de Urabain, Alicia Lucía Sáez de la Cuesta, Mikel Xabier Ayensa, Aitor García Aliaga, Mánex Zubiaga, Itziar Alberdi, Juan Jesús Narvcolaez. .
The General Secretariat of Penal Institutions, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, has approved the transfer to prisons in Euskal Herria of other 12 prisoners from ETA.
a) Yes, Diego Ugarte Lopez de Arcauté will be transferred from the Leonese center of Mansilla de las Mulas en Iurgi Garitagoitia from Logroño Prison, according to the Interior Ministry. Both are serving long sentences that will reach their third part in 2027 and 2033 respectively.
Interior has also ordered the transfer of Juan Carlos Besancewho will be transferred from Dueñas Prison (Palencia).
also mentioned Zigor Bravo Saez de Urabain, until now in Soria prison; Y Angel Maria Telleria.
Their names are added to Alicia Lucia Saez de la Cuesta Y Mikel Xavier Ayensawhich will be transferred from Logroño.
They will be taken from Burgos to a Basque prison Aitor Garcia Aliaga Y Manex Zubiaga.
Interior has also agreed to the transfer of the pair Itziar Alberdic Y Juan Jesus Narvaez Goñic, extradited in 2014 from Mexico, where both had been on the run with their children for 22 years. Both will receive three quarters of their sentences in 2029.
Finally, Inigo Vallejo will be transferred from the Cantabrian center of El Dueso.
The decision of the department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska has been highly criticized by the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT)who denounced in a statement that “there are only 50 prisoners” of ETA outside of Hego Euskal Herria, and questioned whether the Home Office would agree that these transfers “take advantage” of the holidays, when there is “less media noise” .
According to his calculations, 70% of ETA prisoners are serving their sentences in prisons in the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre.
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Source: EITB
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