Overview
- ABC published a list identifying 15 ETA prisoners currently benefiting from article 100.2, a flexibility provision applied by prison treatment boards and approved by a supervisory judge.
- The Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional has appealed decisions that would have advanced at least four of those inmates to third-degree open conditions, according to ABC.
- ETA convict Asier Arzalluz Goñi moved on February 10 to the step prior to conditional release, a progression the Fiscalía is contesting on the grounds he spent only three to four months under article 100.2.
- The Basque Department of Justice confirmed that Juan Ramón Carasatorre obtained semiliberty in January under article 100.2, allowing weekday daytime release with nights and weekends spent in prison.
- The AVT urged changes to penitentiary law to ensure victims are notified and can appeal 100.2 authorizations, citing AVT data that the Basque Government has approved 113 third-degree progressions since 2021 with 20 reauthorized after revocation.