Anti-terrorist legislation

Every person, regardless of the reason that have led to them being detained or imprisoned, have fundamental and inviolable rights. These are contained within the International Agreement on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and other instruments contained within the framework of the United Nations, as well as the European Convention for the Protection of the Rights and Fundamental Freedom of the Person and the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that were adopted within a European framework.

The Spanish State has ratified all of these International agreements and declarations, and therefore, according to the Spanish Constitution of 1978, at the time of interpreting internal legislation on the subject they must take these agreements into account.
Throughout this project we are going to try to analyse the situations that arise involving Basque citizens that are detained by Spanish State Security Forces, and in which "Anti-terrorist" legislation is used. The legal frameworks, both national and international, will be examined.

We will centre ourselves on the whole process that begins when the person is detained in the Basque Country for political reasons, and is thus accused of belonging to, or collaboration with, an armed organisation. We will also study the actions of the Judicial power and other actors that participate in the process.