La Audiencia Nacional española ha enviado a prisión a seis de las ocho personas detenidas la pasada madrugada del jueves dentro una nueva operación contra la juventud vasca tras haberles dejado en un régimen de incomunicación y privándoles de sus abogados de confianza durante las horas de interrogatorios a las que han sido expuestos.

Desde jaleo!!! queremos mostrar todo nuestro apoyo a los/as compañeros/as vascos encarcelados/as así como denunciamos la represión que el pueblo vasco en general sufre por parte de los dos estados que les dominan, especialmente en este momento en el que la izquierda abertzale está moviéndose en una línea de actividad política no armada para obtener sus objetivos como nación y defender sus intereses como pueblo. La actitud española ante esta situación no hace más que reforzar el continuismo fascista y deja al descubierto cómo es la represión y el encarcelamiento de las ideas de liberación popular el único camino que tienen para parar al pueblo vasco.

Venceremos!!!

Animatu eta parte hartu!!!!

This week and the next one the radio station where Basque Info is produced will be closed for the Christmas holidays but we'll have a new podcast on the 5th of January.

In brief:

• The six youth activists arrested last Thursday told the judge who sent them to jail that they had been tortured by the Spanish police while held in incommunicado detention. They were constantly beaten, suffocated with plastic bags, insulted, threatened and two of them even sexually abused. The two lawyers also arrested were released on an €18,000€ bail. Basque nationalist parties strongly criticised the Spanish authorities over the operation and demanded the right to be pro-independence political activists without the threat of torture and imprisonment. They also said the Spanish government should be helping instead of attacking a conflict resolution process.
• Last Thursday the French authorities decided to extradite Batasuna’s spokesperson Aurore Martin to Spain. This is the first time an extradition request for someone who officially is a “French national” and an activist of a legal political party from the north of the Basque Country (under French administration) has been accepted. Politicians from all parties have protested the decision. In turn, Aurore Martin has gone underground “to continue with (her) political work in Batasuna to promote a democratic process in the Basque Country”.
• Thousands of people took part in 109 picket lines across the Basque Country to demand the legalization of the Basque Pro-Independence Left last weekend.
• On Saturday hundreds more traveled to the Spanish jail of Logroño where Basque Pro-Independence Left leader Arnaldo Otegi is imprisoned. They marched up to the prison walls and released balloons trailing banners to demand “Free Otegi, free politics”. Three supporters were attacked and badly beaten by a Spanish fascist gang nearby and one of the victims who happens to be from Logroño himself is still in a severe condition in hospital.

Iturria: argia.com

Azaroaren 8an, Marokoko soldaduek indarrez desegin zuten Agdaim Izik kanpalekua. Ehunka saharar Aaiun hiriko kaleetara irten ziren protestan. ARGIAk, Salem Hach Embarek Irizar sendiari egindako elkarrizketa plazaratuko du datorren astean. Ondorengo lerroetan Askapeneko Julen Zulaikak idatzi duen artikulua duzue, aipatu elkarrizketaren aurrerapen gisa.