Basque prisoners to the Basque Country

730 Basque political prisoners scattered in jails in France and Spain, with the highest number of prisoners, approximately 422, in the Spanish State. 

The most immediate demands of the Basque prisioners are for an end to the dispersion policy and bringing all them close to home, for the release of those who have served three quarters of their sentences, as the law actually establishes and also of those prisoners who are terminally ill.

Basque Pro-Amnesty movement and the organizations support:

· The right to respectful and dignified treatment.
· End torture and ill treatment.
· End isolation and beatings.
· Respect for the national and cultural identity of imprisoned people.
· The right to health.
· Proper healthcare--Allow doctors chosen by the prisoners to visit them.
· Immediate release of those who suffer serious illnesses.
· End surveillance and restrictions in communication.
· Freedom to communicate in the Basque language.
· Allow Basque prisoners to freely carry out their daily lives in Basque and fully develop their language skills.
· End the obstacles to study – Allow the possibility to carry out studies in Basque.
· Women in prison have the right to be mothers in conditions that do not diminish their dignity.
· Eliminate restrictions on communication with the child’s father.
· Guarantee living conditions for children in jail. Apply parole to prisoners who have served 3/4 or 2/3 of their sentence (depending on the Penal Code under which they were tried).
· Apply the corresponding legal sentence reductions without discrimination.
· Immediate release for prisoners who suffer serious incurable diseases.
· Acknowledge the representatives elected by the Collective. Allow the Collective to freely maintain relations with other political and social actors.
· Allow the Collective to freely participate in whichever instruments for debate and discussion Basque society creates.

Repatriate the Basque Prisoners!