International Briefs – Daily Weather

April 1, 2015.

(AFP)

approach rejects a request for ETA prisoners 30

The National Court, principal Spanish criminal court, considered that it is not competent to examine requests approach to prisons in the Basque Country presented by thirty ETA prisoners who had alleged violations of human rights, reported Tuesday a judicial source.

The prison supervision court considered Audience these requests are “exclusive jurisdiction” of the prison administration, whose decisions can be appealed by the contentious-administrative and not criminal.

The Judge Reyes Gutiérrez Jimeno says his competition limited to cases involving “a clear violation of fundamental rights and prison” and only intervenes in exceptional circumstances, once exhausted administrative remedies.

US and Cuba remained in Washington workshop

Delegations of the United States and Cuba held Tuesday a brief technical meeting to define the future agenda of bilateral talks on human rights, as part of the diplomatic rapprochement between the two countries, said a Cuban source told AFP.

The Cuban diplomatic source consulted by AFP, who requested anonymity, did not elaborate on the content of the conversations Tuesday.

This meeting, the State Department had described as “preliminary”, should discuss the methodology and structure of these future talks on the issue of human rights.

After the historic announcement of 17 December on the start of a process of rapprochement between the US and Cuba, high-level delegations of the two countries held several meetings alternately in Havana and Washington to advance towards restoring diplomatic relations.