Basque National Liberation Movement Prisoners

Basque National Liberation Movement prisoners are all those people who have been imprisoned, placed on remand, or otherwise kept in custody due to their illegal activity in support of the Basque National Liberation Movement, an umbrella term that includes the armed organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), proscribed internationally as a terrorist organisation.

Most individuals linked to the MLNV currently serving out their sentences in prisons of Spain, France and other countries were members of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) at the moment of their arrest, and have been convicted of a range of crimes such as murder, attempted murder, participating in terrorism, kidnapping or for being members of ETA. Others are not members of ETA but have been imprisoned for collaborating with it, or have been convicted of other crimes such as belonging to illegal organizations like Gestoras pro Amnistía or SEGI, belonging to or trying to rebuild banned political parties such as Askatasuna and Batasuna, participating in Kale borroka, or for the "public glorification" or "apology of terrorism", an offense incorporated into the Spanish criminal code in 1995 and later, which carries a suspended sentence of up to two years. Many supporters of the Basque nationalist left consider ETA and MLNV convicts currently in Spanish and French prisons to be political prisoners, the majority of whom are represented by the Basque Political Prisoners Collective (EPPK under its Basque acronym). Some organizations like Etxerat have spent many years campaigning for a general amnesty to be granted to all these prisoners.

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