IBSC and Ógra protest at Spanish Ambassador's visit

November 15th saw the Spanish Ambassador to Ireland visit UCC to give a lecture on Spain's premiership of the EU. Noting the profound irony in a state which sponsors regular and serious abuse and torture within its jurisdiction, the Cork Basque Solidarity Committee, along with support from Ogra Shinn Fein held a protest at University College Cork.

The protest was well supported, with many students interested by the issues which were unfamiliar to them. The group held an reenactment of torture being inflicted on a Basque activist by a member of the guardia civil.
A spokesman for the Cork Committee said "while advocating democracy, Spain refuses to negotiate with the Basque independence movement and, are in fact continuing or even increasing their repression, particularly with political prisoners".


The group were later refused entrance to the public meeting, but still managed to let the ambassador knew that the Basque Country does not walk alone, and raised awareness of the issues.