Zubiria Sent To Jail

In complete disregard with its own laws and brushing aside their commitment to international treaties, Madrid has sent Peio Zubiria to prison.

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Pello Zubiria, sent to prison

His relatives asked the Basque institutions to do the intermediation work in order to obtain Zubiria's conditional freedom

Pello Zubiria, former Egunkaria's director and Argia's co-director, was moved from Gregorio Marañon Hospital to Soto del Real prison last Friday (7th of March). Zubiria was moved from hospital when his wife, Malores Etxeberria, was going to visit him as every day. Even though they passed each other on the corridor, Etxeberria didn´t get permission to see her husband. They didn´t explain her either he was going to be sent to Soto del Real infirmary or to a common corridor.

In a press note made public last Friday by Argia it was denounced the way Zubiria was sent to prison because even permission for his wife to see him was denied. In addition to this, and due to an illness Zubiria suffers called Ankylosing Spondylitis, they informed that his imprisonment could have disastrous consequences. For that reason, "his family makes again the call to the Basque institutions and to the groups and institutions related to human rights to do the intermediation work in order to obtain Pello Zubiria's conditional freedom".

In last Wednesday's (5th of March) press conference Malores Etxeberria informed that Zubiria was getting better of the Pneumonia he was taken of, but that the condition of his Ankylosing Spondylitis was getting worse. In the same press conference, the family's doctor Marta Barandiaran explained that Pello Zubiria hasn't got the appropriate condition to be sent to prison. She said "the illness he suffers affects mainly his spine, but also his knees, his ankles and his fingers' joints, so his life is highly limited". She informed that his bones are also "very fragile" because suffers of Osteoporosis.

The Spaniards are always playing the victims in the political conflict with the Basques, now you see how inhumane they can be.

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