updated Sat. September 21, 2024
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The National
March 25, 2018
Anyone threatening the status quo meets repression. That repression included secret death squads recruited and paid for by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior to hunt down Basque separatists hiding in France, during the 1980s. It includes maintaining more police and paramilitaries per head than anyÃâà...
Metro Newspaper UK
March 25, 2018
That missing person is the author's grandfather, taken at gunpoint by Basque separatists in the 1970s and killed a few weeks later. But there is another missing person: the author's mother, who died of cancer years later. Ybarra recounts both crises with a documentary clarity, expertly navigating the privateÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 20, 2018
Madrid (AFP) - Spanish police held and questioned four Basque separatists for several hours Tuesday for paying homage to a former leading member of separatist group ETA who died in November. News of the detentions came as controversy mounts in Spain over public tributes to former ETA membersÃâà...
Irish Times
March 9, 2018
The titular dinner guest is the author's grandfather, a former mayor of Bilbao who was kidnapped and murdered by Basque separatists in the spring of 1977. The novel is his granddaughter's “free reconstruction” of the story, which took place six years before she was born. Ybarra's research is evident, withÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 6, 2018
Dr. Kaunert said public opinion had shifted in recent years as the threat from al-Qaeda and Daesh sympathizers has grown and the targets have become civilian, rather than the military ones targeted by the IRA and the Basque separatists ETA in the 1980s and 90s. "Public opinion goes up and downÃâà...
EURACTIV
March 2, 2018
Spain's Supreme Court exonerated a young woman sentenced in 2017 for tweeting several jokes about Dictator Franco's PM assassinated in a 1973 bombing by Basque separatists. Successive approximation? While the EU expects effective dialogue with Poland over its rule of law, Warsaw is preparing aÃâà...
EL PAÍS in English
March 2, 2018
In that case, Rivadulla had written and shared songs that praised attacks carried out by terrorist groups such as the Basque separatists ETA, Spanish Maoist group GRAPO, Al-Qaeda, the Marxist-Leninist organization Red Brigade, and more. In some songs, he called on the terrorists to repeat their attacks.
EURACTIV
March 1, 2018
Spain's supreme court exonerated on Thursday (1 March) a young woman sentenced in 2017 to a year in prison and seven years of complete disqualification for tweeting several jokes about a former prime minister assassinated in a 1973 bombing by Basque separatists. Cassandra Vera was 18 at the timeÃâà...
EL PAÍS in English
February 27, 2018
The region of Navarre, where Basque separatists also have a presence, has a marked shortage of national law enforcement officers as well. In October 2016, two off-duty Civil Guard officers were attacked by a mob outside a bar in a small Navarrese town, raising concerns about safety for police officers inÃâà...
New York Times
October 28, 2017
Though Mr. Iriondo still hopes for greater autonomy for the region, he does not want Basque separatists to follow their counterparts in Catalonia, whose parliament voted on Friday to secede from Spain, prompting the Spanish government to take administrative control of Catalonia hours later.
euronews
September 29, 2017
Pro-independence parties in Basque Country are showing their support for Catalonia's referendum on Sunday. Tens of thousands of people attended a rally on Friday in the capital of the autonomous community in northern Spain backing Catalan separatists. “I would like independence as the CatalanÃâà...
ABC Online
April 8, 2017
The Basque separatist group ETA has given up weapons to French authorities in what is seen as a crucial move toward disarmament and a definitive end to its decades-long fight for a homeland on the French-Spanish border. Key points: French authorities remove weapons and "several hundredÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Amnesty International has warned that an “exponential increase” in prosecutions under a controversial Spanish anti-terrorism law is having a chilling effect on satire and dissent and is pushing social media users, musicians and journalists towards self-censorship. The charity is calling for the law to beÃâà...
