Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bilbao in northern Spain on Saturday, urging better conditions for jailed members or collaborators of ETA just weeks before the Basque separatist group is due to disband.
The Basque separatist group ETA apologised Friday for the "pain" and "harm" it caused during its decades-long campaign of violence, and appealed to its victims for forgiveness.
Spain's Supreme Court confirmed 535-year prison sentences for two ETA militants, it said Wednesday, just weeks before the Basque separatist group is expected to announce its dissolution after decades of violence.
The trial of eight people accused of "terrorism" for allegedly beating up two policemen in the Navarra region began Monday amid sharp criticism from Amnesty International the charges are "inappropriate."
A year after militant Basque group ETA laid down its arms after a decades-long campaign of violence, people in the northern Spanish region are gearing up for the day the separatists announce their dissolution and are finally relegated to history.
Spanish police on Tuesday arrested three people in the northern Basque Country and Navarra for paying homage to a former leading member of separatist group ETA who died in November.
Basque militant separatist group ETA has put its proposed dissolution to an internal vote, according to extracts of a letter by its leaders published Thursday in Basque newspaper Gara.
Europe's top rights court on Tuesday ordered Spain to compensate two ETA members convicted of the 2006 bombing of Madrid airport for the "inhuman and degrading treatment" they suffered in police custody.
A convoy of French police vehicles traveled to Madrid under armed escort to hand over all the weapons and documentation seized from the former basque militant group ETA during 20 years of investigations in France.
The Basque separatist group ETA on Wednesday condemned Madrid's opposition to the planned independence referendum in Catalonia, saying it had "trampled on the rights" of the Catalan people.
The Basque separatist group ETA said on Sunday it would consult its members on "future decisions" following its unilateral disarmament, a Basque newspaper reported.
When she posted jokes on Twitter about a 1973 assassination committed by Spain's Basque separatist group ETA, Cassandra Vera never for one moment thought they would land her a one-year jail sentence.
French authorities on Saturday uncovered tonnes of weapons and explosives at arms dumps identified by Eta, following the Basque separatist group's vow to disarm after its long and often bloody drive for independence.
Spain on Saturday demanded that Basque separatist group Eta apologise for decades of violence and then disband "definitively" after it provided France with a list of arms caches to finalise a promise to disarm.
The Basque separatist group Eta has provided France with a list of arms caches under its promise to completely disarm by Saturday, an independent verification panel said.
The Basque separatist group Eta's pledge to fully lay down its arms after decades of violence will not "be subject to any negotiations", French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said on Saturday.
The Basque separatist group Eta plans to fully lay down its weapons by April 8th by providing the location of stockpiles, the head of the regional Basque government said on Friday.
Police have found a large stash of explosives in northern Spain which they suspect belong to the Basque separatist group Eta, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bilbao in northern Spain on Saturday, calling for amnesty for prisoners of the Eta Basque separatist group.
Five people were arrested and arms seized in a police raid which France and Spain claimed dealt a "blow" to Spanish Basque separatists ETA, but which rights groups slammed Saturday as a
"political" operation.
The most senior ETA leader still at large was arrested Saturday in southwest France, Spanish authorities said, dealing another major blow to the embattled Basque separatist group.
