Overview

• Sixty-eight percent of the 134 ETA inmates in Spanish prisons now hold benefits such as semi-liberty, conditional release or work-release furloughs under the Basque administration’s policy.
• This week’s approvals include Gregorio Escudero Balerdi, Ibai Arza Beovide and Unai Bilbao Solaetxe, all convicted of deadly ETA attacks including the 2002 execution of councilor Juan Priede.
• The Asociación Víctimas del Terrorismo condemned the measure as a moral disgrace that revictimizes families by allowing unrepentant killers unsupervised freedom.
• AVT data show that 51 inmates have third-degree status, 22 are on conditional release and 17 benefit from sentence flexibility under article 100.2 of the prison regulations.
• The AVT has urged prosecutor Carlos García Berro to appeal these decisions and decried simultaneous cuts to subsidies and institutional support for terrorism victims.