Otegi King called "chief torturer" and he lost one year in jail. Now the European Court of Human Rights has decided that this sentence violated his freedom of speech and condemned the state to compensate with 23,000 euros in a maximum of three months.
Otegi The sentence was an opinion, the Court says. But do it now?
In 2009 a document was seized Garikoitz Azpiazu, former military head of ETA, which recommended the prisoners report torture. And they do. But the state tends to dismiss their indictments for lack of evidence. Unless there is evidence that even a shyster business can ignore. In December 2010, four civil guards were sentenced to prison and disqualification for "severe torture" to two ETA prisoners.
The State tells us that such torture is an exception. Many believe they are the norm. That torture is one of those "tools of rule of law" that are never mentioned. And the political powers are determined to maintain and raise our suspicions. This week, the Board of Spokesmen Parliament of Navarre has refused to establish a Commission of Inquiry to look into allegations of torture made by the previous ETA prisoners. If there is torture, why not check? Why systematically deny any possible investigation?
Amnesty International, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Rapporteur Against Torture United Nations condemned to solitary confinement which is referred to the terrorists (those 13 days where detainees disappear from the map and they are alone with the security forces). And he condemned because it violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. We condemn it in 13 days, the cardinals come and go. The English State, however, turns a deaf ear to these complaints.
said all that ... is the king "the chief of the torturers?
Juan Carlos I de Borbón is the commander in chief of the Armed Forces. The Civil Guards were convicted in December of the Armed Forces. Then, indeed, the King is (was) the head of the torturers. At least those four.
Otegi was not imprisoned for giving an opinion. He was imprisoned for stating a fact.
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