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		<title>Friendship Group welcomes warmly Abertzale Left&#8217;s document</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the Friendship Group « Towards a peace process in the Basque Country » welcomes very warmly what we consider to be a step of great importance in order to achieve a peaceful scenario in the Basque Country. Last Saturday, 14th of November, the Abertzale Left1 presented what they called “A first step for the Democratic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=83&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish police arrest 34 Basque pro-Independence youth activists.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early hours of yesterday, Tuesday, 34 Basque pro-Independence political activists were arrested and 92 properties were searched in an operation involving 650 Spanish policemen. The police tried to arrest another seven youths but they weren’t in their homes. Last week the anti-repression organization Askatasuna warned that they believed a police operation was imminent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=82&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Torture in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain must end the practice of incommunicado detention as it violates the rights of people deprived of their liberty, said Amnesty International in a report published on Tuesday. &#8220;It is inadmissible that in present day Spain anyone who is arrested for whatever reason should disappear as if in a black hole for days on end. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=80&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge rules against extradition.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Tom Burgess ruled this afternoon that the Spanish authorities’ extradition warrant against Belfast-based Basque activist Artruro Benat Villanueva was “invalid”. The judge rejected the warrant, which claimed that Mr Villanueva was a “member of an illegal terrorist organisation” (Jarrai) from 1994-2000, on the grounds that it did not include any particularities, or details of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=78&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basque prisoners to the Basque Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[730 Basque political prisoners scattered in jails in France and Spain, with the highest number of prisoners, approximately 422, in the Spanish State. The most immediate demands of the Basque prisioners are for an end to the dispersion policy and bringing all them close to home, for the release of those who have served three quarters of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=76&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A first step for the democratic procress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current legal and political framework, which divides our territory and limits the rights of its citizens, has been proven to perpetuate political and armed conflict. It does not allow Basque citizens to decide their own future without constraints. In this context, the situation of violence and armed confrontation has lasted much longer than anybody [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=74&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Extradite the Basques Campaign (Ireland)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We support the fundamental human, civil and political rights of the Basque people as laid out in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. We support the right of Iñaki de Juana and Arturo ‘Beñat’ Villanueva not to be persecuted by the Spanish government for their political ideas. We call on the British government to immediately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=72&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repression fails to silence Basque independence movement</title>
		<link>http://basquecountry.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/repression-fails-to-silence-basque-independence-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aim of these arrests is to stop political initiatives that the Basque pro-independence movement was due to activate, political initiatives to resolve the ongoing conflict and to create a democratic scenario for the Basque Country. Read more:  http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/39046<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=67&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Currin: Detentions of basque politicians are horrific.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Currin, a South African attorney working as a mediator, said the left-wing nationalist movement should not stop putting forward new initiatives despite the arrest of its top members. Video:  http://www.eitb.com/video/en/news/politics/detail/277981/brian-currin-says-batasunas-initiative-is-praisworthy/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=63&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Batasuna statement on arrest of Basque activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following statement has been issued by Batasuna on the arrest of 10 activists of the Basque pro-independence movement Batasuna. “On the 13th of October 2009 the Spanish National Police arrested 10 members of the Basque pro-independence movement. Among them Arnaldo Otegi, leader and spokesperson of Batasuna during the last peace process in the Basque [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basquecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10101906&amp;post=58&amp;subd=basquecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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