Pablo González in a file image. Photo: Pablo Ibáñez (AraInfo).
PPablo González has been detained in Poland for one hundred days. “One hundred days without his family. One hundred days without his trusted lawyer. One hundred days without being able to work as a journalist. Who is going to give him back these hundred days?” his family and friends denounce in a video published on social networks through from account #FreePabloGonzález. They also warn that “they could be just the first of many more prisoners.”
➡️ Pablo González turns 100 days detained in Poland.
❌ 100 days without his family
❌ 100 days without your trusted lawyer
❌ 100 days without being able to work as a journalist
Who is going to return these 100 days?#FreePablo pic.twitter.com/YmA5j07yf6
— #FreePabloGonzález (@FreePabloGonz) June 7, 2022
“We can’t see Pablo because he’s not in a position to be seen, or we don’t know if what they want is to force him to admit to facts he hasn’t committed.” These are the words of Gonzalo Boye, the Basque journalist’s trusted lawyer who has so far been unable to communicate with his client.
“We know that our letters are not sent to him. Direct telephone communication is not allowed. Nor is it allowed for his trusted lawyer to visit him. The isolation is practically total,” denounces his partner, Oihana Goiriena. According to the Spanish consul in Warsaw, Pablo González “is fine, but he has lost a lot of weight.”
They also criticize the attitude of the Spanish government that “has contributed to sowing more doubts about Pablo, without incriminating evidence that was not circumstantial and that was already clarified at the time has emerged to date.” An opaque case, “with many questions and no answers”, and all “with the approval of the Government of Spain, which beyond the three consular visits has continued to profile itself, allowing Poland to violate up to 18 articles of the Bill of Rights Fundamentals of the European Union”.
In the video, the words of the President of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sánchez, stand out, who in an appearance in Congress assured: “There are aspects that are not going to be revealed because the person himself [Pablo González] indicates that they are not revealed”. However, Oihana Goiriena questions this statement: “I do not know who Pablo has told that some aspects are not revealed, as far as I know the only person with whom Pablo has spoken is the consul” .
On May 25, the Polish court in Przemsyl decided to extend Pablo González’s pretrial detention for three months, as requested by the prosecution. The Basque journalist was arrested in Poland on February 28 when he was covering the refugee crisis as a freelancer. Since then, he has been incommunicado.
#FreePabloGonzález has already added more than 41,000 signatures to the campaign it launched a few days ago on the change.org and osoigo.com platforms. In it they demand that the basic rights of journalist Pablo González be respected, which are being systematically violated.
95 days detained in Poland.
In one week we have surpassed more than 300 supports in @osoigocombut we need 1,500 signatures to get Pablo González’s case to the @Congreso_Es.
Help us get it: sign and share!https://t.co/6u18PmRB4F pic.twitter.com/cFhcGr2Y4Z
— #FreePabloGonzález (@FreePabloGonz) June 2, 2022
We have already collected more than 40,000 signatures in @change_es in support of Pablo González, so that he is given a fairer and more humane treatment. It’s been more than three months without being able to talk to his family. Can you help us continue denouncing this situation?
Sign and share ⬇️https://t.co/U5ZP4q873e pic.twitter.com/dCcYmVkGRo
— #FreePabloGonzález (@FreePabloGonz) June 1, 2022