Latest frightening news from the Basque Country

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Thursday January 10, 2008 10:17 by Irish Basque Committees irishbasques at hotmail dot com

New torture cases, demonstrations, interviews...

When the Gorka Lupianez rape at Spanish police hands was still fresh on people's memory two new terrible cases came up this week.

Igor Portu is in intensive care with broken ribs, bruises all over his body and a perforated lung and Mattin Sarasola has been seen in similar circumstances while still in the hands of Spanish police.

These are the main news in the Basque Country at the moment but many more can be checked at the Irish Basque Committees blog: thousands of people taking to the streets, demonstrations banned, ETA's interview, prisoners conditions worsening...

News are updated every week shortly after Basque Info radio program in Féile FM (www.feilefm.com on line every Tuesday from 6.30-7pm).