Overview

• The Audiencia Nacional’s Prosecutor’s Office filed its challenge with the Juzgado de Vigilancia Penitenciaria against the Basque Government’s decision.
• Prosecutor Carlos García Berro asks to reclassify Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas to second degree and to end Article 100.2 benefits.
• The appeal cites the extreme gravity of his crimes and cumulative sentences exceeding 1,100 years, while acknowledging favorable prison progress.
• Iglesias serves a maximum effective term of 30 years in Basauri and had been allowed daily exits for NGO-run activities under Article 100.2.
• Victims’ group Covite denounces the progression as a “fraudulent” third degree as the court considers the request to revoke it.