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SEGI

SEGI is a Basque pro-independence and revolutionary left-wing organization, which has already undergone two prohibitions, along with prison sentences for several of their members.

Segi is proscribed as a terrorist organisation (as member of ETA) by both the Spanish and French authorities as well as the European Union as a whole. In its decision, on 27th February 2007, the Grand Chamber of the ECJ (European Court of Justice) dismissed the appeal of the illegal Basque organisation “Gestoras Pro Amnistia” and SEGI members against their dismissal by the European Council with claims for damages suffered as a result of inclusion in the “terrorist list”. The UK intervened, with Spain, on behalf of the Council – the only other EU state to do so.

Background

In 2002 SEGI was classed as a "terrorist" organization by the Spanish National Court magistrate Judge Baltasar Garzón, thus banning it as a components of ETA. Garzón had previously banned the two other Basque youth organisations that preceded Segi: Jarrai and Haika.

According to An Phoblacht, the case descended into a farce when another judge in the Spanish National Court considered that Garzón’s arguments "were not valid" and released all the detainees. However another report suggests that the Supreme Court ruled they were a terrorist organizations, but had not been placed on the country's terrorist list, before the court's 19 January ruling.

Ógra Shinn Féin, an Irish youth movement, has called for the "immediate release of our comrades in Euskal Herria". It and the Irish Solidarity Committee with the Basque Country have stated a number of protests in Ireland calling for the release of jailed Segi acitivists.

References

  1. State repression of the Basque movement
  2. Template:Es iconLos cachorros de ETA: Jarrai-Haika-Segi
  3. Template:Fr icon French list of terrorist organisations, in the annex of Chapter XIV
  4. Template:PDFlink, 29 May 2006
  5. Illegal as considered member of ETA 1
  6. "Terrorist": Flag of Convenience?
  7. Judgement of the Court, Grand Chamber, 27/02/2007
  8. (Spanish) Detenidos 12 dirigentes de Segi cuando preparaban su viaje a la cumbre de Barcelona
  9. (Spanish) Segi recoge en un documento su plan para reactivar en verano la «kale borroka»
  10. An Phoblacht
  11. The Independent
  12. Ógra Shinn Féin
  13. Irish Solidarity Committees with the Basque Country
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