Basque Country: Hungerstrike against solitary confinement

The Basque prisoner Iñaki Bilbao Goikoetxea, known as Txikito, has begun a hunger strike and a communication strike 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.

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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/)