Protesters decry political ban
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Police arrested 24 people in Spain’s Basque region during a day of strikes called by the radical left in protest at the banning of political parties linked to the ETA separatist group.
Strikers, mostly teachers and academic staff members, according to the regional government’s labor department, held banners reading: “No to the violence of persecution, no to the banning of ideas.”
Protesters chained themselves together and attempted to disrupt traffic by placing concrete-filled oil drums on the road leading into the northern city of Bilbao. Two people suspended themselves by harnesses from a bridge over a metro line, stopping trains.
Spain’s High Court has banned two Basque parties for three years because of links to ETA, preventing their participation in next month’s election.
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