The Basque Government has once again granted the third prison grade to José Antonio Olarra Guridi, the former military chief of the terrorist group ETA. The decision was announced on October 14 in Vitoria by the Basque Department of Justice.
This administrative measure mirrors a previous ruling by the regional government. However, the earlier decision to grant him the semi-liberty regime was formally revoked in July by Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional), setting up a renewed legal and institutional clash over the prisoner's classification.
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