Basque Prisoner in England's Gitmo

Here is a quite interesting article on Iñigo Makazaga, the Basque political prisoner detained in England.

The author tell us about the by now known discrepancies and fabrications leveled by Madrid against Basque political refugees around the world.

But this one contains a number of statements by Iñigo's lawyer that are rather telling, here they are:

She adds, “It was a revelation to us that the [Spanish] government was willing to behave with such dishonesty and ask for extradition of this young man on the basis of evidence that simply did not exist.

“What again was a learning experience for us was when we began to look at what would happen to Iñigo — a very decent, very intelligent, very principled, very pleasant young man — if he were extradited to Spain.

“We have seen reports from the UN rapporteur of torture and realised there’s systematic use of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment of Basques. There’s a pattern here of fabrication of evidence that’s shocking. He would not receive a fair trial.”

The article details the two charges that Iñigo already won, check the whole thing at the Socialist Worker online.

You can also read it here.

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