Saturday, December 02, 2006

Spain Must Give Up Torture

This is quite interesting, the Basque Parliament passed a bill to demand from Spain to stop torturing Basque citizens. Here you have an article about from EITb:

Basque Parliament urges Spain to admit existence of tortures

The text approved on Friday requested the Spanish government to abolish the Anti-Terrorist Law, as well as that the detainees would not be held incommunicado.

The Basque parliament passed on Friday an initiative that requested the disappearance of the Spanish High Court and urged the Spanish government "to admit the existence of tortures and its systematic application in certain cases". The document was passed with the votes of Basque Nationalist PNV and EA, Leftist Aralar and the Communist Party of the Basque Lands (EHAK).

The groups that form the governing coalition did not agree on their vote: PNV and EA backed the initiative, while the Communist EB abstained. Basque Socialist PSE-EE and Conservative PP voted against.

The text urges the Spanish government "to abolish the Anti-Terrorist Law, as well as that the detainees would not be held incommunicado". Likewise, it requests "the disappearance of the Spanish High Court as a special court, since a fair trial is not possible when statements made under torture are accepted".

The document also asked the Spanish High Court "to stop and shelve all court proceedings where torture and solitary confinement have been applied". Finally, it showed solidarity with torture victims.

Now the PNV must do something about its own top torturer, Javier Balza.

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