{"id":575456,"date":"2010-05-21T17:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/spain-court-convicts-three-basque-separatist-group-members-of-terrorism.php"},"modified":"2010-05-21T17:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:07:54","slug":"spain-court-convicts-three-basque-separatist-group-members-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575456","title":{"rendered":"Spain court convicts three Basque separatist group members of terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/topstoryphoto\/frontspainflag.jpg\" alt=\"Photo source or description\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\"><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/images\/s.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"5\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[JURIST] The Spanish National Court on Friday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/elpaismedia\/ultimahora\/media\/201005\/21\/espana\/20100521elpepunac_1_Pes_PDF.pdf\">convicted<\/a> [judgment, PDF; in Spanish] three members of the Basque separatist group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/world\/para\/eta.htm\">ETA<\/a> [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=eta\">news archive<\/a>] on charges relating to a 2006 bombing in Madrid. Mattin Sarasola, Igor Portu, and Mikel San Sebastian were found guilty of murder, attempted murder, and taking part in a terrorist attack and were each sentenced to 1,040 years in prison. The men were also ordered to pay 1.2 mil euro (USD $1.48 mil) in damages to the families of their victims. The lengthy sentence is largely symbolic as Spain imposes a 40-year limitation on prison sentences for terrorism convictions. The 2006 Madrid bombing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hmWNhz92oQ-A-a07-6aEjze13lHgD9FR7IO00\">ended a ceasefire<\/a> [AP report] that had been declared by ETA. ETA is listed as a banned terrorist group by the European Union and has been held responsible for more than 800 deaths over the past 40 years.  <\/p>\n<p>The Spanish government continues to actively pursue charges against ETA. In March, the court <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/03\/spain-court-sentences-former-basque.php\">accused<\/a> [JURIST report] the Venezuelan government of aiding ETA in a plot to assassinate members of the Colombian government in Spain. In February, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.es\/\">Interior Ministry of Spain<\/a> [official website, in Spanish] said that it <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/02\/basque-separatist-leader-arrested-in.php\">took into custody the suspected ETA leader<\/a> [JURIST report], along with two other people who are believed to be senior members of the group. In January, Spanish Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/01\/spain-judge-finds-eta-attempted-to-kill.php\">ruled<\/a> [JURIST report] that ETA had tried three times to assassinate former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001 but had failed. Last June, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echr.coe.int\/ECHR\/homepage_en\">European Court of Human Rights<\/a> (ECHR) [official website] <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2009\/07\/europe-rights-court-upholds-spain-ban.php\">upheld<\/a> [JURIST report] Spain&#8217;s ban of Basque political groups Batasuna and Herri Batasuna for their alleged ties to ETA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] The Spanish National Court on Friday convicted [judgment, PDF; in Spanish] three members of the Basque separatist group ETA [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] on charges relating to a 2006 bombing in Madrid. Mattin Sarasola, Igor Portu, and Mikel San Sebastian were found guilty of murder, attempted murder, and taking part in a terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}