Overview

• José Luis Sánchez‑Bravo’s 1975 conviction was declared null last year, according to his sister, who has campaigned for decades to clear his name.
• Marking the anniversary, Victoria Sánchez‑Bravo urges official acknowledgment and greater education about the dictatorship, warning of a resurgence of far‑right sentiment.
• She alleges her brother was tortured by police officer Antonio González Pacheco, known as Billy el Niño, describing severe injuries she says she witnessed.
• Sánchez‑Bravo was executed on September 27, 1975 after a military council of war that condemned him for alleged involvement in the August 16 attack that killed Guardia Civil officer Antonio Pose Rodríguez; his sister maintains he was not the material author and says he was in Mazarrón.
• Five were executed that day—José Luis Sánchez‑Bravo, Ramón García Sanz and José Humberto Baena in Hoyo de Manzanares, Juan Paredes Manot in Barcelona and Ángel Otaegui in Burgos—prompting widespread protests in Spain and abroad.