Overview
- Soledad Iparraguirre will be allowed to leave prison Monday to Friday and return to sleep in custody starting March 23 under an individualized semi-freedom regime.
- The measure is not a move to third grade but an intermediate step that requires a verified work or volunteering plan with set hours.
- The National Court's prosecutor must issue a nonbinding assessment before the Central Prison Oversight Court rules on whether the regime stands.
- Spain's Partido Popular will take a proposal to Congress to tighten the penitentiary rules, seeking to curb use of Article 100.2 and to require at least 30 years of effective time before access to third grade.
- Victims' associations criticized the authorization, citing unresolved cases and lack of cooperation from former ETA members, as a similar semi-freedom for 'Txeroki' in February already triggered backlash.