Europe rights court orders Spain to free ETA militant


  • World
  • Monday, 21 Oct 2013

MADRID (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court ordered Spain on Monday to free a Basque separatist militant, saying her extended prison sentence was illegal, a ruling victims groups warned would lead to the early release of dozens of violent prisoners.

The Strasbourg-based court also told Madrid to pay 30,000 euros (£25,437.89) compensation to Ines del Rio who was jailed in 1989 for her role in 23 assassinations and car bombings carried out by the Basque independence movement ETA.

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