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| Spain Vows to Stand Firm on ETA Prisoner Policy |
| 2014-01-04 |
[An Nahar] Spain vowed Friday to stand firm on its policy on ETA prisoners even though tossed in the slammerYou have the right to remain silent... members of the armed Basque separatist group have softened their stance on key demands. Last week EPPK, a collective representing hundreds of tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... members of ETA, western Europe's last major armed secessionist group, dropped its long-standing demand for a general amnesty. In a statement on December 28 EPPK, representing prisoners who constitute most of ETA's active surviving membership, also said it would consider letting them negotiate individually for release. Previously, they had refused to play ball with the prison authorities since the prisoners rejected the terms of their imprisonment. "This statement has no value regarding the government's anti-terrorism policy in general, nor the policy of dispersing prisoners," Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told news hounds on Friday in his first public comments on the EPPK statement. |
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