The typhoons Yolanda and Santi, and the recent earthquake in the Philippines, have provoked last days thousands of deaths, many more displaced and a huge destruction of all kind of infrastructures.
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SORTU evaluates positively the sentence made public on October 21st, 2013, by the European Court of Human Rights which confirms that the prisoners who have had the 197/2006 Doctrine applied to them which irregularly lengthened their prison terms must be set free without delay. As a consequence of this decision two prisoners have already been released and the sentence must bring about the release of over fifty prisoners.
The 197/2006 Doctrine responds to the objective manifested by diverse Spanish governments to avoid that Basque political prisoners recover their freedom even after having completed their sentences. For that, the Spanish courts have made use of "constructing accusations" and "legal engineering".
The 197/2006 Doctrine that the ECHR has annulled has been applied to 70 Basque political prisoners who have already completed more than 200 years in prison on top of what they were sentenced to. Every day that passes without their being released adds a new fracture to their most fundamental rights and is a jibe by the Spanish state to the Court at Strasbourg.
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SORTU shows its total support to the international "Free Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian Political Prisoners" campaign launched on October 27th from the historic South African landmark of Robben island, where anti-apartheid struggle icons Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and others were imprisoned during Apartheid in South Africa.
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