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• Analysis of terrorist legislation, evolution and practices of penal agencies

  28 April 2009, by Aranda Mónica, Rivera Iñaki
  The Spanish concept of terrorism has evolved in a quite particular meaning. The identification of ETA (Basque Liberation Army) as the internal enemy has concentrated the use of every antiterrorist law and criminal justice agencies addressed to call a halt its activities. A number of criminal and procedural rules, police and prison regulations have been modified in Spain by following the antiterrorist philosophy.

• Deprivation of Liberty and Human Rights in Spain

  27 April 2009, by Cano Francisca, Fernández Bessa Cristina, Manavella Alejandra, Ortuño Jose Maria, Rivera Iñaki
  The Spanish State figures at international reports as one of the countries where torture persist, resulting in recommendations to eradicate or, at least, to minimize this practice. As such, the international organizations responsible for the protection of human rights denounce the lack of political will on the part of the Spanish Authorities (statutory, regional and local) to eradicate torture.

• Spain commemorates Madrid train bombings

  22 April 2009, by News Agencies
  The families of the victims of the Madrid train bombings commemorated the fifth anniversary of Europe’s worst Islamic terror attack, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800. Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero laid flowers at trees in the Forest of Remembrance – a hill specially landscaped with trees for each of the victims.

• Spain may accept Guantanamo Bay detainees

  18 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Spain has told the United States that in principle, it is open to accepting some prisoners currently being held at Guantanamo Bay when the military base shuts down, according to a recent edict by president Barack Obama.

• Islamic terrors suspects on trial in Spain

  17 March 2009, by Boston Herald
  Fourteen people went on trial in Spain this week on charges of involvement with Islamic terrorist groups and recruiting extremists to fight in Iraq. The fourteen, all men and mostly of Moroccan background, are charged with collaborating with Islamic terrorist groups and for helping several suspects flee the March 11, 2004 Madrid bombings.

• Spanish soldier arrested over posting ’jihad’ videos on the internet

  17 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Spanish police arrested a Spanish solder and his girlfriend for allegedly posting videos on the internet promoting Islamist extremist views and calling for attacks in Spain according to the Ministry of Interior. The 23-year-old suspects, both Muslim, were arrested in the city of Granada.

• Passport forgery suspects in Spain found not linked to terror activities

  16 March 2009, by Expatica
  A judge has ruled that 13 members of a group recently detained for alleged passport forgery, do not have any link to Islamic terror networks.

• Acquittals of Islamists raise security concerns in Spain

  14 January 2009, by News Agencies
  Spain’s National Court acquitted three Islamist extremists suspected of helping to finance al Qaeda. The acquittal is raising questions over the country’s law and judicial systems. Recently acquitted Imad Eddin Baraka Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah, who is serving a 12 year sentence on a separate charge of having headed in al Qaeda cell in Spain, was initially sentenced to an additional 15 years for helping to organize the attacks on 9/11.

• Council of Europe publishes report on minority languages in Spain

  15 December 2008, by Conseil de l’Europe
  This report has been drawn up by a committee of independent experts which monitors the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

• Returns at Any Cost: Spain’s Push to Repatriate Unaccompanied Children in the Absence of Safeguards

  19 November 2008, by Human Rights Watch
  Spain’s accelerating effort to send back unaccompanied children who enter the country illegally might subject them to danger, ill-treatment and detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government needs to halt repatriations until it has a process to ensure their well-being, and, as an immediate step, give them the same right to an independent lawyer that adult migrants have under Spanish law.

• Spain acquits 14 accused Islamists

  3 November 2008, by News Agencies
  The Spanish Supreme Court overturned convictions against 15 of the 20 men accused of forming an Islamist group plotting to blow up Madrid’s High Court. The ruling found «non-existent the crime of conspiracy to commit a deadly terrorist attack.» Convictions for five of the men were upheld. Thirty suspects were originally arrested four years ago, most of whom were from Algeria and Morocco.

• Arrests during nationwide anti-terror raids

  3 November 2008, by News Agencies
  Spanish police arrested 13 men accused of harboring Islamic extremists, including several suspected of having connections to the 2004 Madrid bombings, and helping them flee Spain. The arrests were made in areas near Barcelona, Madrid, and Algeciras. The recent arrests stemmed from an operation three years ago, in 2005, in which Spanish police broke up a cell that allegedly recruited people for suicide attacks against US-led forces in Iraq. At least eight of the detained are of Moroccan origin; details about the others have not been provided

• Informe al Comité de Derechos Humanos. Ocubre 2008

  27 de octubre de 2008, por Coordinadora para la Prevención de la Tortura
  Este informe elaborado por la Coordinadora para la Prevención de la Tortura del Estado español (plataforma en la que se integran 44 organizaciones no gubernamentales de derechos humanos, centros universitarios y secciones de colegios profesionales de abogados) fue presentado ante el Comité de Derechos Humanos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, el 20 de octubre de 2008, en Ginebra.

• The last peace process in the basque country: 14 months of hope

  6 October 2008, by Forero Alejandro, Rivera Iñaki, Rodríguez Fernandez Gabriela, Ubasart Gemma
  The present work shows the genesis and development of the last peace process that took place in the Basque Country from March, 2007, in the frame of antiterrorist excepcionalism. The paper focus on the origins of the Basque conflict - outlining the history of the movement ETA- and in the influence that both the diverse actors and a part of the Spanish written press (the newspapers El País, El Mundo and Gara) have had in the development of the events.

• Punitive management of urban space

  6 octobre 2008, par Acosta Maria, Cals Marta , Fernández Bessa Cristina, Masso (di) Andrés, Puig Marta, Roig Aura
  The reaction of several municipal authorities to the fear of crime, anti-social behaviour and the resulting City-dwellers’ intolerance is to produce legal instruments to deal with « incivilities » and to promote peaceful coexistence in the city. In the case of Barcelona, this instrument is the so called « Good Citizen’s Charter of Barcelona », which came into effect on 15th January, 2006. After one year of enforcement we have evaluated the consequences of the implementation of this by-law.

• Five acquitted over Madrid train bombings

  12 August 2008, by News Agencies
  A Spanish court overturned the convictions of four people who had been found guilty in connection with the 2005 Madrid bombings. The court overturned a ruling from last year, which found three guilty of being members of an Islamist cell that carried out the attacks. All four of the men were among 21 people convicted in 2007, of being inspired by – but not directed by, Al Qaeda.

• Alleged al-Qaeda-linked Islamists arrested

  29 July 2008, by News Agencies
  Spanish police broke up a cell of suspected Islamic militants, and arrested four people accused of fundraising for terrorist activities. The men, all of Algerian origin, were arrested in the southern province of Huelva and the Basque region in the north. Authorities said that the cell had been under investigation since 2005, and was directly linked to Al Qaeda.

• Spain arrests two on militant recruitment suspicion

  30 June 2008, by News Agencies
  Police in Barcelona arrested two people on Tuesday on suspicion of recruiting Muslims to fight for militant groups, news agency EFE reported. The report said they were not connected to 11 other Islamist militants who a Spanish court charged on Thursday with offences related to suicide bomb plots in the Spanish city and Germany.

• Spanish judge indicts 11 on terror charges

  25 June 2008, by News Agencies
  A Spanish judge charged eleven men with plotting suicide attacks against the public transportation network in Barcelona. The indictment says the cell of ten Pakistanis and one Indian, had plans to carry out an attack between January 18-20 of this year. The indictment said that the men were «very close to achieving full technical capacity with explosives» to carry out the attack.

• Eight Algerians arrested on terrorism charges

  25 June 2008, by Expatica
  Eight Algerians were arrested on charges related to terrorism, and are believed to have ties to a cell spreading propaganda, recruiting volunteers, and engages in the lending of economic and logistical support for groups forming part of the ‘Islamic Maghreb’ - a North African branch of al-Qaeda.

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