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Six CNT Activists Begin Open-Regime Detention as Pardon Bid Advances

They reported to the Centro de Inserción Social de Villabona after the Supreme Court refused to suspend their sentences.

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Los sindicalistas conocidas como las 'Seis de la Suiza' ingresan en la prisión de Asturias

Overview

  • Judge Lino Rubio Mayo ordered their immediate arrest on July 9 and they voluntarily entered CIS Villabona on July 10 to serve three-and-a-half-year sentences under an open-regime framework.
  • The Supreme Court upheld two-year and one-and-a-half-year prison terms for obstruction and coercion and ordered €150,000 in damages to the La Suiza pastry owner.
  • Defense lawyers have applied for a third-degree prison classification that would grant the activists daytime freedoms outside the facility.
  • Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz has formally advanced a government pardon petition on behalf of the six unionists.
  • Major unions and left-wing parties have called a protest at Gijón City Hall at 19:30 on July 10 to oppose the detention order.