Post by cenydd on Oct 22, 2013 16:22:42 GMT
A convicted Basque militant has been freed after the Spanish authorities upheld a European Court of Human Rights ruling against her continued detention.
Ines Del Rio, of the separatist group Eta, had been serving a 30-year sentence for bomb attacks in the 1980s.
Spain's High Court had earlier backed the Strasbourg court's ruling against Spanish laws that denied her right to earn remission through prison work.
Spain says dozens of Eta prisoners could now be eligible for release.
Ines del Rio left the Teixeiro prison in A Coruna in north-west Spain at 16:25 local time (14:25 GMT).
Ines Del Rio, of the separatist group Eta, had been serving a 30-year sentence for bomb attacks in the 1980s.
Spain's High Court had earlier backed the Strasbourg court's ruling against Spanish laws that denied her right to earn remission through prison work.
Spain says dozens of Eta prisoners could now be eligible for release.
Ines del Rio left the Teixeiro prison in A Coruna in north-west Spain at 16:25 local time (14:25 GMT).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24624913
Seems like something of a technicality, although it's no doubt an important one for those prisoners. Does Spain have the whole anti-European Human Rights brigade like the UK?