European Parliament
Gorostiaga Atxalandabaso (NI ),
in writing
I have abstained because Amendments 1 and 2 have been refused.
We must bear in mind that the new reform of the Spanish Penal Code, proposed by the PP and supported by the PSOE, opens up the possibility of holding incommunicado for 13 days. Lawyers will not have enough time to prepare the cases, and for Basque political prisoners, an impediment will still remain to their being assisted from the time they are arrested, by lawyers they can trust.

