Former ETA leader Iratxe Sorzabal has called for the case of torture to be reopened
The National High Court acquitted Sorzabal of an attack on the border with Irun on the grounds that he was found guilty of ill-treatment during the arrest , after which it has been agreed to request the reopening of the case.
Former ETA leader Iratxe Sorzabal, currently imprisoned in the Alavesa prison of Zaballa, has called for the reopening of the torture case against the civilian guards who participated in the arrest and then take a statement in March 2001.
The association Observatorio Vasco de Derechos Humanos (ECHR) has reported that the National High Court acquitted Sorzabal of an attack on the border with Irun (Gipuzkoa), which proved ill-treatment during his detention.
The court stated in its judgement that the accused, who was sentenced in 2022 to 24 and a half years' imprisonment for a double attack in Gijon, was subjected to ill-treatment during his detention in March 2001 and subsequently assumed responsibility for this and other attacks, and the prosecution appealed the court decision.
The ECHR has criticized in a statement that neither the judge nor the prosecutor have acted ex officio to investigate the facts contained in the judgement.
This association has announced that it will support Sorzabal in his application to Court No. 13 of the National High Court, which has determined that "he filed his case in 2001 with little investigation."
He has specified that the request for the reopening of the case is based on several elements, including, in addition to the judgement, the reference to the measures proposed by the UN Committee against Torture to investigate the case of Raúl Fuentes - sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment for belonging to ETA - who, after being arrested in 1991, claimed to have been tortured at the police station in Bilbao.
According to the latter ruling, "the statute of limitations cannot be invoked in order not to investigate cases of torture judicially".
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