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STATE OF BASQUE POLITICAL PRISONERS

The prison in Port-III characterized by extreme isolation

not even four months leading up But there are now six Basques have been assigned to the newly opened prison in Port-III. A new prison in which they are subjected to continuous controls and continuous communication restrictions. Two of them, Unai Parot and Iñaki Bilbao-hospitalized with a hunger and thirst strike, only have contact with the jailers.

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On 7 June, the English Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, and the Director General of Prisons, Mercedes Gallizo, sold, offered by a media tour graphics, good facilities and the best conditions in which they would house more than 500 prisoners (70 of them in isolation) in the new prison Cadiz Puerto-III. Praised the goal of "social rehabilitation" they say has the prison, noting that the creation of this new prison could alleviate the situation of the prison population of Andalusia, as currently 1,800 of its 13,000 prisoners serving sentences outside the community toutonómica. The goal would be, as then spread, decongest prisons and Puerto-II or Botafuegos. However, the reality is far, too, the peculiar reality show and Gallizo Rubalcaba, when the cameras were some issues were uncovered. For example, that Basque prisoners have gone to such extreme isolation modules of Port-III, a distance no less than more than 1,100 miles from their homes. One of them, lezamarra Iñaki Bilbao, has declared hunger and thirst strike over prison conditions on Wednesday and was hospitalized for this reason. According

Basque prisoners have described being held in this prison (the third built in the provinceis exempt from the harsh internal system to subject them jailers English: Beginning in the morning and continuing throughout the day, the Basques are some-tidos to searches by electric bike, with his hands and letting them go through the usual electronic arc access to prisons.

Another aspect is that in Port-III not seen improvements to the conditions in some prisons as a result of protests and struggles carried out by the Basque political prisoners. For example, in the new prison Cadiz are forced to stand up for counting.

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Other dyes certainly acquire surreal. Besides the few things I egRMIT taken into the cell, they can save only the two by two. Ie can only have two shirts, two books, two pairs of socks ... And these objects are reduced to the most basic, nothing else. They have a tank in which stored the belongings of each, and visit once a week to get others, but always in pairs. Most of the property must be purchased at the prison.

Four officials in the visit

electric power, yes, run by the English State. Askatasuna has reported that prisoners are denied even the sunlight, because in all of Puerto-III cells are installed a metal plate and preventl passage of natural light. Fortunately, it has one of the prisoners in Puerto de Santa María's not too cold, which reduces the effect of the absence of lightning. These cells, moreover, are registered every day by the omnipresent guards, guarding four at the Basques when they come, for example, to communicate with their lawyers.

The tiny dimensions of the courts is another noteworthy aspect of this prison, which has been submitted by the Socialist Government almost as a modern prison. The courts are also closed at the top networks. In the case of the isolation block, its length is reduced about nine paces wide and eighteen long,as explained by the prisoners. One recounts wryly that "it is difficult to run on them, but not impossible."

The collective of Basque political prisoners known to spare the person who has been chosen to take the reins of the prison. The director of Puerto-III, Francisco Sanz, it was also previously prisons Leaping Black, Puerto-II and Huelva.

Official sources say that Iñaki Bilbao remains stable but has lost 20 kilos

Iñaki Bilbao Goikoetxea continued yesterday at the hospital in Puerto Real, but along the time new information is disseminatedit began supplying parenteral nutrition (tube) forced. These officials confirmed the information Askatasuna, which rose on the night of Wednesday that although the prisoner was not opposed to it, made clear its intention to continue the protest.

English Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, was questioned yesterday about the status of prisoner Biscay during a press conference convened in Madrid to discuss the ruling on the 11-M. Rubalcaba said so brief, merely stating that the English government will try to Iñaki Bilbao "as befits a rule of law that respects life" and in terms of deciding what will the courts.

CHTMLThe leader of EA XC Larreina Rafa, for its part, considered in an interview with Spain's National Radio that "always concerned" such a situation from a humanitarian standpoint, "but often these prisoners did not take into account these reasons humanitarian ", he added then. Larreina added that from now on "the obligation of a democratic legal system to ensure such conditions that affect health to respect these minimum of dignity in which a person must develop the disease."

In Lezama, the birthplace of the prisoner locked up in Port-III, was yesterday held a rally attended by about 50 people and announced mobilizations for the next days