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UPDATED: Abertzale hails ECHR decision as “very good news on a human level”

21 October 2013

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"Lawyers for Inés del Río to file for a further 55 ETA inmates to be freed"

See the article: Abertzale hails ECHR decision as “very good news on a human level” [El Pais, link]

See: ECHR: Court: Spain must free terror convict Ines Del Río Prada (Council of Europe, link) and Press release: The Court delivers its Grand Chamber judgment in the Del Río Prada case (ECHR, pdf):

"In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Del Río Prada v. Spain (application no. 42750/09), which is final, the European Court of Human Rights held:
by fifteen votes to two, that there had been a violation of Article 7 (no punishment without law) of the European Convention on Human Rights;
unanimously, that since 3 July 2008 the applicant’s detention had not been lawful, in violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention; and
by sixteen votes to one, that the respondent State was to ensure that the applicant was released at the earliest possible date.

The case concerned the postponement of the final release of a person convicted of terrorist offences, on the basis of a new approach – known as the “Parot doctrine” – adopted by the Supreme Court after she had been sentenced."

See also: Full-text of judgment (pdf)

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