For the first time ever, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a list of profiles of “100 information heroes” for World Press Freedom Day (3 May).Through their courageous work or activism, these “100 heroes” help to promote the freedom enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom to “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” They put their ideals in the service of...

MADRID -- Nine additional members of Basque separatist group ETA were freed Friday following a ruling by the Spanish National Court, even though prosecutors asked to wait for a ruling from the country's highest court. The releases follow an Oct. 21 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which found illegal the method by which Spain calculated the time to be served. That had resulted in ETA members staying in jail far longer than the length of their original sentences. The nine...

Paris, Mar 26 (EFE).- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy demanded the "definitive dissolution" of the Basque terrorist group ETA, which warned Tuesday that the expulsion of its negotiators from Norway will bring "negative consequences." "I like to think positively, I don't want to talk about negative consequences, and the positive ones will be for everyone once ETA announces its final disappearance as a terrorist organization," Rajoy said in Paris at a joint...

According to Bilboko Branka web, the basque Lander Fernandez imprisoned in Italian state will be extradited to spain. Despite the case of Lander have caused different mobilizations in Italy and Basque Country, finally the court of Rome have decided to extradite him. Although the defense of Lander have ten days to make a judicial remedy. He was accused of participating in a sabotage (burning a bus in Donosti) on 2002. According to the defense of Lander, he was tortured and the crime has...

Brazilian police on Friday confirmed the arrest of a suspected member of Basque separatist group ETA. Joseba Gotzov Vizan Gonzalez was arrested in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro as soon as an arrest warrant was issued by the Spanish National Court. Vizan Gonzalez, 53, is wanted for questioning in connection to terrorist organization, taking part in terrorist attacks and murder. He has also been linked to a car bomb in 1988 which left a policemen seriously injured. After leaving...

Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez, 36, was arrested after police swooped on his home in Sloan Street, Leith, in July and has remained in custody while fighting extradition requests. Last year two European Arrest Warrants were issued by France and Spain seeking his extradition. The Spanish warrant accuses Ordonez of being a member of ETA, moving materials and men from France to Spain and gathering information on politicians and police officers. At a hearing in Edinburgh Sheriff Court at the...

The suspect was arrested in the tourist haven of Palma de Mallorca and his hate-filled personal diary and other papers revealed plans to attack the University of the Balearic Islands, they said. Identified only by the initials JMMS, he was detained on Wednesday just as he received more than 140 kilograms of explosives that he had bought online, police said in a statement. "In his personal diary and other documents seized at his home, the detainee showed his hatred of society,...

Explosive material was seized at an address in San Roque where a Turkish man was arrested. Two other men were held near Almuradiel. They are thought to have been planning an attack in Spain or elsewhere in Europe, according to the Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz. The arrests are part of one the biggest international operations to date against al-Qaeda, Mr Diaz said. The material is currently being tested but is thought to be enough to "destroy a bus", he told...

Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in volume last year, according to a Spanish Jewish community monitor. In a report on anti-Semitism in Spain in 2011, the Observatory on Anti-Semitism in Spain counted more than 1,000 anti-Semitic sites and web pages that the observatory says were created in Spain. In 2010 the observatory counted only 400 such sites. The observatory includes Spanish Facebook pages and groups in its reports. The document on 2011 is the observatory`s third annual monitor...

Iran's president on Tuesday lauded his country's newly launched Spanish-language satellite TV channel, saying it would deal a blow to "dominance seekers" - remarks that were an apparent jab at the U.S. and the West. The launch is Tehran's latest effort to reach out to friendly governments in Latin America and follows Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's four-nation tour of the region earlier in January, which included stops in Cuba and visits to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador. It also comes...