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> Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the Basque Country on Saturday to demand prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group ETA be transferred to jails closer to the northern Spanish region.
> Many waved red-white-and-green Basque flags while the crowd chanted "Basque prisoners must return home" as it made its way to city hall.
> After coming to power in June 2018, a month after ETA disbanded, Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged to start reversing the policy but organisations which work with ETA prisoners complain there has been little progress.
> The demonstration aimed to show that Basque society does not want "The children of these prisoners to have to travel hundreds of kilometres for a 40 minute visit," Joseba Azkarraga, the spokesman for Sare, a group which lobbies on behalf of prisoners told reporters.
> The treatment of ETA prisoners is a sensitive one for Sanchez's government, which would be certain to anger victims associations and conservatives if it made any concessions to prisoners.
> There currently just over 200 people in prison in Spain over their links to ETA, of which only a handful are in jails in the Basque Country, according to Etxerat, an association of prisoner families.
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> The Basque separatist group Eta, which killed more than 800 people during its 40-year terror campaign, has announced its full dissolution days after apologising to its victims and their families.
> In a letter dated 16 April, but published by a Spanish online newspaper on Wednesday, the group informed Basque institutions and civil society groups that it had come to the end of its existence.
> "But it does not bring an end to the conflict between the Basque homeland and Spain and France. The conflict did not begin with Eta and will not end with its dissolution."
> The letter said Basques had a new opportunity to break with the past and build a future together: "Let's not repeat our mistakes. Let's not let our problems fester. Doing so will only give rise to new problems."
> Eta will hold a symbolic event marking its disbandment in southern France on Friday.
> Its apology last month was dismissed by victims' groups, but hailed by the Spanish government as proof that Eta had been defeated "With the weapons of democracy and the strength of the rule of law".
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> Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the Basque Country on Saturday demanding that prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group ETA be transferred to jails closer to the northern Spanish region.
> In the city of Bilbao, protest organisers said some 76,000 people rallied along the streets calling for prisoners to be moved nearer to home and for an amnesty.
> Spanish government policy has been to keep most ETA prisoners in jails hundreds of kilometres away from the region, which has made it difficult for relatives to visit.
> A second protest of around 9,000 protesters took place in Bayonne, in French Basque Country, calling for the prisoners to be moved.
> ETA killed more than 800 people and wounded thousands more over four decades of conflict in an attempt to establish an independent Basque state.
> A large majority of ETA prisoners are also kept under the strictest "First degree" jail regime which only allows them out in the yard for three to four hours a day and bans them from getting leave.
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