POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 1

Anti-fascist militant, member of the Bukaneros group. He was sentenced to four years
in prison for the possession of explosives. The bag that was allegedly seized from him
whilst he was participating in a picket during a general strike in 2012 did not contain
his fingerprints. He was sentenced to one further year in prison for resistance to au-
thority. He is currently imprisoned under the FIES [Inmates under special observation]
system in the Madrid IV Penitentiary Facility in Navalcarnero.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 2
Provincial manager of the Andalusian Workers Union (SAT) in Jaén and councillor for
Jaén en Común. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and fined 1.800
euros for allegedly assaulting a socialist councillor during a protest in September 2012.
The sentence was solely based on police reports. The videos presented by the police
show him holding a megaphone, intending to mediate the uproar.
He is currently imprisoned in Jaén Penitentiary Facility.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 3 TO 7
Five people were arrested in 2009 for publishing a document that opened a debate
within the Basque nationalist left to drive forward the peace process in Euskadi. In
2011, they were sentenced to up to ten years in prison for attempting to re-establish
the banned Batasuna nationalist party; these sentences were lowered to six and a half
years for two of them and to six years for the other three. Between them, they served
31 years of imprisonment.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 8 AND 9
During the Operación Xake, an operation against lawyers who used to defend Basque
Nationalist prisoners, several people were arrested.
Among the detainees, a lawyer spent two years in custody in solitary confinement and
was released on bail in 2016.
One year later, another lawyer was released on bail after three years in custody in so-
litary confinement.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 10
Fighter in the Pro-Amnesty movement and member of the National Assembly for Cons-
cientious Objectors, the Assembly for Galician political prisoners from the Ceivar po-
pular anti-repression organisation and the banned PCE(r) [Communist Party of Spain
(Reconstituted)]. He was arrested and tortured in 2005, accused of allegedly joining an
armed terrorist group as a leader and forging official documents. He was released in
2016 after serving eleven years of imprisonment.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 11 TO 15
During the eviction of the occupied Palau Alòs theatre in Barcelona on 4 February 2006,
five people were arrested and tortured for allegedly assaulting an urban officer of the
Barcelona Police department. This officer was left quadriplegic due to unknown causes
and without any concrete evidence. All of them served sentences of between three and
five years, with the exception of one of them who committed suicide during a tempo-
rary release in 2011. These events are documented in the film “Ciutat Morta”.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 16 TO 24
After the events surrounding the Catalan independence referendum on 1 October 2017,
and after the decision to apply Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, the National
Court sentenced the former Catalan President, together with eight former ministers of
the Government of Catalonia, to unconditional imprisonment without bail. Only one of
them avoided the sentence with bail set at 50.000 euros.
They were sent to Estremera prison and Alcalá Meco prison in Madrid.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 25
In November 2015, during what was called Operación Ice, six young people were arres-
ted for being members of Straight Edge Madrid - an anti-fascist libertarian group ac-
cused of being a terrorist group, though there was no evidence. One of them, who was
also a member of the hardcore group DSD (Fun without drugs), served one and a half
years’ imprisonment without bail under the FIES [Inmates under Special Observation]
system before being released until the trial.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 26
A 19-year-old supporter of the anarchist ideology, she was sentenced to one and a half
years in prison for theft.
She was given a further four sentences for contempt of authority as a result of her
claims of abuse, torture and sexual assaults suffered in prison.
She was released in 2016 after serving a total prison sentence of ten years under the
FIES [Inmates under Special Observation] system.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 27 TO 29
Three young people from Errenteria were accused of public disorder with alleged terro-
rist intent for various incidents that took place in Pamplona in 2017 during the march
against repression organised by Errepresioari Autodefentsa, an anti-repression move-
ment bringing together various groups.
After serving eight months of unconditional imprisonment in the Pamplona I Peniten-
tiary Facility, they have been placed on probation without bail until the trial.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 30
A Catalan activist and supporter of the anarchist ideology, she was arrested and impri-
soned in 2007 for her participation in a campaign for the release of an Italian anarchist
prisoner.
She was convicted and accused of allegedly belonging to terrorist groups, and after
having served four months in solitary confinement, she was released on bail of 15.000
euros. After the trial in 2010, she was acquitted of all charges.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 31
A symbol of the anti-prison, anarchist and activist movement, member of COPEL [Or-
ganization of Spanish Prisoners in Protest]. He was a prisoner for ordinary crimes who
was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his participation in the riots in Quatre Camins
(Spain) but was secretly handed down a life sentence, which saw him spend more than
40 years in different prisons in Spain under the FIES [Inmates under Special Observa-
tion] system. He is imprisoned in Brians II Penitentiary Facility in Barcelona.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 32 TO 39
In 1996, eight members of Solidari@s con Itoitz, an environmental group, sabotaged
the work on the reservoir in the Irati River, stopping work for a year.
They surrendered to the Guardia Civil [Spanish Military Police] and after two months
in prison and a hunger strike, were released pending trial. They were sentenced to five
years in prison, but they fled from the law and lived in hiding until three of them were
arrested and served sentences of up to four years in prison.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 40
A prisoner who supported the anarchist ideology, participated in the student revolts in
1984 and was a part of the La Alarma social centre. His involvement with the struggle
for prison reform led to several instances of covert torture involving with intentional
sanitary neglect by Penitentiary Institutions. His case was defended by the Association
of Human Rights of Andalusia (Apdh-A). He has been serving a sentence under the FIES
[Inmates under Special Observation] system since 1996.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 41
A supporter of the 15M movement in Spain, which started on 15 May 2011, he was sen-
tenced to three years and one day in prison with a fine of 3.655 euros for his participa-
tion in an informational picket during the general strike of 29 March 2012.
As a warrant had been issued for his arrest, he voluntarily entered the Albolote Peniten-
tiary Facility in 2014 and after a few weeks, he was released while awaiting the result
of his requested pardon.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 42 TO 48
Members of Segi, a banned youth organisation of the Basque Nationalist Left, were
arrested and sentenced to six years in prison for belonging to a terrorist group.
Seven young people were handed this sentence in 2014.
After several months of a conditional prison sentence, five of them were acquitted of
all charges and two were sentenced to two years in prison.
All have now been released.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 49 TO 55
In a nighttime brawl in Altsasu in 2016, two policemen were injured. After this, eleven
young people were arrested, some of them linked to the anti-police movement Ospa
Eguna. Seven of these people were held pending trial and accused of terrorism.
Currently, three of them are still in prison and the other four have been released with
charges. Between all of them, the prosecution requested 372 and a half years of impri-
sonment in total.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 56 AND 57
Active in organising political rallies calling for the 2017 Catalan independence referen-
dum. One of them, President of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), and the other,
President of the pro-Catalan association Òmnium Cultural.
Having been accused of the alleged crime of public sedition with the risk of reoffending
and destruction of evidence, they were sentenced to unconditional imprisonment wi-
thout bail. They are imprisoned in the Soto del Real prison in Madrid.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 58 TO 67
The Basque newspaper Egin was closed down in 1998 and its directors were impriso-
ned by order of the National Court. Although, years later, the Supreme Court of Spain
declared the closure of this newspaper to be illegal and rejected its relationship with
the armed Basque nationalist group ETA. The ten accused journalists had already ser-
ved more than seven years in prison. Most of them were released in 2015, with the
exception of two who remain incarcerated.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 68
A Basque prisoner who was a supporter of the Pro-Amnesty movement and a militant
member of the banned PCE(r) [Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)] and of the
solidarity movement with Chiapas (Mexico) and Turkey. She was arrested and brutally
tortured in 2006 and sentenced to twelve years in prison for belonging to an allegedly
armed group. She was released for health reasons in 2015, after serving three quarters
of her sentence under the FIES [Inmates under Special Observation] system.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 69 AND 70
During the cultural programme promoted by the Madrid City Council in the Carnaval
celebrations in 2016, two artists were arrested for their portrayal of the puppet show
“The witch and Don Cristobal”. The show presented the police falsely accusing a witch
of terrorist crimes by carrying a banner which parodying a slogan in favour of Basque
activists. They were arrested during the show and sentenced to prison for four days,
after which the National Court decided to close the case.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 71
An artist and researcher. The National Court sentenced him for allegedly possessing
explosives and collaborating with Resistencia Galega [Galician Resistance], a pro-inde-
pendence organisation that was classified as a terrorist group by the High Court, des-
pite never having promoted terrorism. He is currently serving a seven-year sentence
for crimes that he has always denied. He is currently serving his sentence in Villabona
Penitentiary Facility in Asturias.
POLITICAL PRISONERS Nº 72 AND 73
During Operación Pandora, which sought to prosecute alleged anarchist terrorist groups,
despite a lack of evidence, two people were arrested and accused of attempting to cau-
se damage to the Basilica del Pilar in Zaragoza. They were sentenced to twelve years
in prison under the FIES [Inmates under Special Observation] system. They were relea-
sed three years later and sent to Chile, their country of origin, without reincarceration,
though with a temporary ban on returning to Spain.
POLITICAL PRISONER Nº 74
Arrested during the Operación Araña III (which sought to stamp out the glorification
of terrorism on social media) and sentenced to 18 months in prison for bringing two
dummies representing Basque prisoners as a protest for dispersion during the Amurrio
celebrations in Álava in 2005. In 2017, a new sentence was added to his earlier convic-
tion for glorifying terrorism as a result of his statements made on social media. He was
sentenced to one year in prison at the Bilbao Penitentiary Facility.