Iñaki de Juana Chaos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Iñaki de Juana Chaos

Spanish activist

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1955

Place of Birth: Legazpi, Spain

Profession: terrorist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Iñaki de Juana Chaos

  • José Ignacio de Juana Chaos (born 1955 in Gipuzkoa, Spain), better known as Iñaki de Juana Chaos, is a member of the Basque separatist group ETA.
  • He was convicted of killing 25 people in 1987 and was originally sentenced to 3,000 years in prison.
  • As a result of complicated sentencing guidelines, he became eligible for release in late 2004 after only serving 17 years.
  • However, the Spanish Government prevented his release by accusing him of making terrorist threats in two articles written from prison.
  • In August 2006, he started a hunger strike protesting his continued imprisonment but it ended after sixty-three days.
  • Another hunger strike occurred from November 2006 until March 2007, it ended after he was moved from a hospital in Madrid to one in his home region of Gipuzkoa.
  • After he left the hospital he was to be placed under house arrest, but on 6 June 2007, after the end of ETA's ceasefire he was sent to Aranjuez prison.
  • On 2 August 2008, de Juana Chaos was released from prison.

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