Since the end of the ceasefire, ETA prisoners have not been sent back to overseas prisons.

This infuriates the prisoners, who believe that the police are withholding information, and decide to kill one of the ETA prisoners.

However, Juan drags Utrilla's corpse in front of the liaison and insists that the government agree in public or they will kill the ETA prisoners.

There were 525 ETA prisoners serving prison sentences thoughout Spain.

He has described the ETA prisoners as having been engaged in a, 'legitimate struggle' similar to that of Irish republicans.

In another case in the same week, 21 people were convicted whose work on behalf of ETA prisoners actually belied secretive links to the armed separatists themselves.

Includes testimonials of ETA victims and relatives of ETA prisoners.

The move would also, it was hoped, create the conditions for more ETA prisoners to apply for "reinsertion", whereby they were offered an amnesty in return for a renunciation of violence.

Mr President, Basque citizens should take note of the fact that Mr Ortuondo cares more for ETA prisoners than for the victims of terrorism.

On January 6, a demonstration in San Sebastian in favour of ETA prisoners and in support of a democratic solution to the process ended up in riots.