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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
BASQUE nationalist leader Arnaldo Otegi received an enthusiastic welcome from supporters on his release from more than six years in prison yesterday.
The Sortu (Create) party general secretary walked free from jail in Logrono, where he had been held since 2009 for trying to rebuild banned separatist party Batasuna.
He was also prosecuted for glorifying terrorism by comparing a jailed member of armed group Eta to Nelson Mandela.
CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at the facts behind US persecution of Fergie Chambers
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The evacuation of thousands of Basque children became a landmark act of compassion during the Spanish civil war, write SIMON MARTINEZ and MANUEL MORENO
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history