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Benjamín Ramos finally released
On the 24th June

(Thursday 2nd August 2001)

Benjamín Ramos was finally released on the 24th June after dilating
Activist have been campaigning for years for the release of this miscarriage of justice who was dying in prison because of AIDS. However despite his innocence and his health condition and short live expectations, the authorities dilated his release. He had to be out in the 2000 but the authorities refused his release. The prosecution claimed that Benjamín wasn't even ill when he was dying.
Benjamín was arrested in Germany in 1995 and got deported to the Spanish State in 1996. He was imprisoned because of declarations under torture by other people.

These declarations shouldn't be taken in consideration at all as the practice of torture is illegal even though its broadly used in the Spanish State. Benjamín was accussed of collaborating with ETA's Barcelona branch. While his imprisonment Benjamín suffered isolation, returning his letters and preventing him from contacting anyone outside the prison. Benjamín took part in hunger strikes where the psychological torture was also used against him.
He was threaten by fascist prisoners too with the officers complacence. As any other political prisoners Benjamín also suffered dispersion until he was moved to the Quatre Camins prison, nearer his hometown Granollers.
As his sister Etel told GARA "this treatment is just an example of the way political prisoners are treated". Relatives and friends of Benjamin Ramos.