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2013-11-27 Europe

Spain Court Frees 14 ETA Members under Rights Ruling

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 It is not about rights it is about retroactivity.

Summary: Somewhat in the 70s Franco's regime in, order to try to congratiate with European countries introduced a new Criminal Code who was a liberal's dream. One of its tenets was that even if you were sentenced to a million years in jail you would only serve thirty years. Add to it you could redeem serving time by the most egregious ways: washing floors, taking classes and even by playing soccer and this was calculated basing on ypur million yeas sentence but on the 30 years cap. But Franco died and terrorism (virtually unxistant during the dictaorship) thrived along with crime. After more than fifteen years resisting changing the law the socialist party ended changing it to "pain reductions are calculated on the sum of the years you have been sentenced to". Ie if you play soccer you will redeem 3 of your 4952 year sentence. Then Spanish government tried to apply the new law to people who had already been sentenced. Since laws, and specially crimal laws are, not supposed to be retroactive a female terrorist ppealed to the Human Rights Court and this ordered her to be released. Like very sentence it aonly applied to that particular case ie she was the only one to be released. But the Spanishg Governement has been releasing them by the dozzens along with serial kilelrs and rapers.

Aren't you glad your ancestors moved to America?

Posted by JFM 2013-11-27 09:09|| 2013-11-27 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes.

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-27 17:31|| 2013-11-27 17:31|| Front Page Top

#3 And you should be packing JFM.

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-27 17:32|| 2013-11-27 17:32|| Front Page Top

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