Sabin Arana, who has had tuberculosis for more than fourteen years, has, during the last several years of his detention in Francoist prisons, begun to suffer from a serious kidney disease.
he was suddenly fransfered to Puerto de Santa Maria, although he had been in the midst of a hun-
He was later brought to Madrid under terrible conditions: Although he was urinating blood, he traveled from Puerto de Santa Maria bound hand and foot, folded into a ball, and was thrown into a dungeon cell for nearly twelve hours. He arrived exhausted, Shortly thereafter, he stopped urinating blood - because he stopped urinating altogether. A probe had to be introduced.
Now (March 1), the doctars have decided to operate. Abave all, we must impose indispensable medical guarantees, Arana's right to choose a non-prison hospital for his operation and recovery.
An intemational campaign has begun. Sabin Arana, who has been a militant for sixteen years
(first in the old ETA bufore 1969, then in the ETA-VI, then in the LCR/ETA-VI), is one of the most respected and esteemed comrades among a whole generation of militants of all organizations who have lived with him in the six or seven prisons in which he has spent the last seven or eight year. We must win his liberation, save him so he may continue the struggle to which he has de-
And along with him, J. Antonio Garmendia, Antonio Durán, and Horacio Fernandez Ingunzo, all three of them ill, must be released immediately! MEDICAL GUARANTEES FOR THE POLIT-
At a Chrysler factory, freedom for Antonio Durn was included among the workers demands, and on February 28 an assembly of minen in Mieres demanded the release of Horacio Fernandez Inger strike, along with cleven of his comrades.
voted his life.
ICAL PRISONERS! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
That is the road that must be followed!
(From Combale, central organ of the LCR/ETA-VI.)
Editeur responsoble: Rend Groslombert, 34 rue Nathomb, 1040 Bruxelles
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FREE Sabin Arana! First diagnosed as renal tuberculosis by a prison "doctor," the malady was recognized as kidney stones after a year and a half of treatment. (This means that for eighteen long months, Sabin was treated with products that actually worsened his illness.) Since the end of December, Sabin has been in the prison hospital of Carabanchel, where he arrived ofter many yedrs as an exemplary militant: arrested three times, tartured for a total of nearly eighteen days, imprisoned since March 9, 1968, that is, for the past eight years. During this time he has participated in eight hunger strikes and has been condemned to punishments that have totaled more than 300 days in solitary confinement and the loss of sixteen years suspended sentences. Condemned by the Tribunal of Public Order and by military, tribunals to a total of thirty-two years in prison, he has been in the prisons of San Sebastian, Madrid, Santander, Burgos, and Segovia; on August 28, 1975 (the day the trial of Garmendia and Otaegui opened)