Basque Country: Hungerstrike against solitary confinement

The Basque prisoner Iñaki Bilbao Goikoetxea, known as Txikito, has begun a hunger strike and has refused all communication after being placed in solitary confinement at Zaballa prison for refusing to remove political symbols, including Basque and Cuban flags, from his cell window.

He has been imprisoned for a total of 42 years and was sentenced to long prison terms for his involvement with ETA; this makes him one of the prisoners who has spent the longest time in custody in Europe. In recent years, he has already undertaken several hunger strikes and communication strikes to protest against his prison conditions, in particular the long periods in solitary confinement and the restrictions on his rights in prison, but also to demand “an independent, socialist, united and Basque-speaking Basque Country”, as was the case with his long hunger strike, which he began in September 2020.

It was also announed that Inaki is reacently in the prison infirmary.

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(news source: https://secoursrouge.org/pays-basque-greve-de-la-faim-et-de-communication-dinaki-bilbao-apres-son-placement-a-lisolement/)

Further we would like to share the news which was provided from the organization TINKO:

“We wish to report that the Basque political prisoner Oskar Barreras has been placed in solitary confinement for refusing to share a cell. He has been threatened with transfer to Zaballa if he does not agree to share a cell. Recently, conditions at Basauri prison have been appalling; there are far too many prisoners and the number of beatings has also increased.”

(translated with deepl.com)