Spain: Basque Separatist Is Freed

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/world/europe/spain-basque-separatist-is-freed.html

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A Spanish court on Tuesday ordered the release of a Basque separatist convicted of terrorism after a top European human rights court ruled that her rights to have her sentence reduced were violated. Hours after the decision, the separatist, Ines del Rio Prada, walked out of a northern Spanish prison surrounded by relatives and drove away. She had been due for release in 2008, but Spain’s courts ruled her sentence reduction was applicable only to her full sentence, 3,828 years, and not to the 30-year maximum period she could be kept in jail by law.