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Ivan
June 2007. Ivan Apaolaza Sancho is arrested in Quebec under SUSPICION of belonging to the ETA, a Basque nationalist group that Canada considers to be a "terrorist group".
Date: 03/10/2008
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Rally in Beasain
Solidarity rally for Ivan in Beasain, his home town in the Basque region of Spain. The banner says, "Free Ivan, Repression is not the way".
Date: 06/21/2007
Views: 97
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No evidence
In November 2007, Ivan's lawyers ask to have the case thrown out because no evidence had been filed to support the government's claims. The government has only submitted Spanish arrest warrants, with no proof to back them up. Two-tiered justice at work.
Date: 04/06/2007
Views: 97
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Tying up
In January 2008, the motion to throw out the case for lack of evidence is rejected and the case proceeds. Not one piece of evidence supporting the allegations against Ivan is ever filed by the government.
Date: 09/24/2008
Views: 115
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Arrest warrants
March 2008. Ivan's lawyer, at a press conference with French legal expert Didier Rouget, holds up a Spanish arrest warrant for Ivan and a confession obtained under torture in Spain. The information in the warrant is clearly based on the torture-confession
Date: 03/25/2008
Views: 124
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Torture evidence
This is the ONLY evidence linking Ivan to the ETA filed in the case. On the third day of her interrogation, held incommunicado by police, Ana Belen is alleged to have pointed to Ivan's picture after having been asked to identify co-conspirators.
Date: 09/25/2008
Views: 103
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Suffocating justice
May 2008. IRB Commissioner Louis Dubé rules that Ivan is 'inadmissable' to Canada on security grounds. Dubé recognizes in his decision that Ana Belen's "confession" was probably obtained by torture.
Date: 10/07/2008
Views: 126
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National Security Cup
In July 2008, Ivan's support committee participates in the National Security Cup soccer match. With "Ivan" (Louis-Frédéric, #6, centre) as goalie, the Indeportables win 2-0 against the Inquisitors.
Date: 07/26/2008
Views: 127
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Habeas Corpus
September 2008. Action outside Superior Court of Quebec. Never charged with any crime in Canada, Ivan asked for habeas corpus after more than a year in prison. He is refused because he is not a citizen.
Date: 09/24/2008
Views: 136
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PRRA refused
October 2008. Lawyer William Sloan and Denis Barrette (Ligue des droits et libertés) at a press point outside IRB offices; Ivan's application for a PRRA was refused and he has already been denied his right to apply for refugee status.
Date: 10/07/2008
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Hungerstrike
CBSA tells Ivan he will be deported on 17 October. Ivan is on hungerstrike. The prison puts him in a 1x3 meter isolation cell (the size of this model set up in downtown Montreal). The prison also removes Ivan's clothes, glasses, books and restricts his ph
Date: 10/20/2008
Views: 112
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Preparing for torture
After a week, including three days without water, Ivan stops the hungerstrike in order to end the isolation treatment and better prepare himself mentally for what awaits him in Spain.
Date: 10/16/2008
Views: 114
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Delegation
16 Oct. Christiane Sibollette (centre), from the Comité Justice Sociale des Soeurs Auxiliatrices, is part of a delegation which delivers a letter to the Canadian Border Service Agency on the eve of Ivan's deportation.
Date: 10/16/2008
Views: 105
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Court refusal
Also on 16 Oct., the Federal Court is asked for a stay of deportation. Ivan's supporters fill the court room. This man, Maurice E. Lagacé, a federal court judge, refuses the stay. He says that at least Spain isn't Guantanamo.
Date: 10/31/2008
Views: 87
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Evening rally
A third action is held in Montreal on the evening before the scheduled deportation, a rally organized by the Réseau de résistance du Québec.
Date: 10/16/2008
Views: 101
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London
Meanwhile, in London, England, members of the London Coalition Against Poverty delivered a letter to the Canadian Embassy in solidarity with Ivan.
Date: 11/01/2008
Views: 106
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Dublin
While in Dublin, the Dublin Basque committee holds a theatrical action in support of Ivan in Dublin, Ireland. Here a 'Basque prisoner' is asked to sign a fake confession. See video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CziZcvh45VE&feature=related.
Date: 10/31/2008
Views: 85
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Guardia Civil
Refusing to sign, the prisoner is assaulted by an actor dressed as a member of the notorious Spanish Civil Guard.
Date: 10/31/2008
Views: 129
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Asphyxiation
Asphyxiation is one of the torture techniques used during incommunicado police detention in Spain. Prisoners can be held for up to 13 days incommunicado.
Date: 10/31/2008
Views: 110
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Solidarity
More Irish solidarity. A delegation to the Canadian embassy also took place in BEIRUT, Lebanon; a letter in support of Ivan was handed to the first secretary of political affairs.
Date: 10/31/2008
Views: 110
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Airport
On the morning of the scheduled deportation, supporters hold a media event at the airport in Montreal, handing out flyers to let passengers and personnel know that Ivan is likely to be deported from that airport. See youtube video ...
Date: 05/25/2007
Views: 122
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Spook
Police and airport security are on high alert and (illegally) block access to most of the passengers. This man follows the leafletters as they leave the airport, but declines to say who he works for.
Date: 10/17/2008
Views: 114
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Ivan in Madrid
On 18 October 2008, Ivan was deported from Montreal in a six-person charter flight. In Madrid he was handed directly to the police.
Date: 11/01/2008
Views: 89
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Prison
Ivan is in jail and faces up to four years before he even has a trial. He will then be tried by the Audiencia Nacional, Spain's "national security" court which was set up by Franco.
Date: 10/31/2008
Views: 133
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