Overview
- Sare reports that 73 of the 118 ETA prisoners it tracks — about 62% — now leave prison daily through third‑degree (open) regimes or Article 100.2 weekday releases.
- The platform credits two drivers for the shift: the Basque government’s penitentiary approach after it took over local prisons and an October 2024 congressional reform that lets inmates count time spent in foreign jails toward Spanish sentences.
- Basque authorities have granted roughly a hundred third‑degree regimes and applied Article 100.2 in about twenty cases, but the Audiencia Nacional has on occasion overturned those decisions, creating legal uncertainty.
- Since the 2024 reform, five ETA inmates and one GRAPO prisoner have been released and other sentences have been reduced, which changes daily life for prisoners who now may leave the facility on weekdays.
- Sare announced the figures at a Mondragón event attended by about 600 people, described the January 2027 Bilbao march as a planned culmination of its work, and signalled it could dissolve if its aims are met; the shift follows a long decline from roughly 465 jailed ETA members in 2014.