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2009: Guardia Civil arrests Arnaldo Otegi 2011: Court sentences him as "head of ETA" 2014: Supreme Court downgrades this to "ETA member" 2018: European Court of Human Rights rules Otegi did not have a fair trial 2020: Supreme Court annuls sentence Otegi served 6 years in jail. @jonathanmartinz/1289175219643404288
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This is how it will go for the Catalan political prisoners too. The stalling, the prevarication, the deliberately glacial pace of the judicial system, all designed to slow the progress to the ECHR. Justice deferred for 11 years is justice denied for 11 years.