12 November 2009

Prisoners’ relatives harassed.


Last weekend many Basque political prisoners lost their right to visit their loved ones after refusing to submit to being searched by guards in dozens of Spanish jails. It seems like this is another step up by the Spanish authorities in the harassment relatives have to endure to visit the 742 Basque political prisoners. 
Friends and relatives have to travel hundreds of miles every weekend to visit them in 85 jails across France and Spain putting their lives at risk on the road. Two of them had to be taken to hospital last weekend and 16 have lost their lives during the past 20 years.  
Even the prisoners’ relatives association has been recently targeted in a criminalisation campaign by the Spanish authorities and media. 
Prisoners in different jails started protests against these new searching measures. 

 

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