{"id":371,"date":"2010-04-13T02:56:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=371"},"modified":"2010-04-13T02:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:56:35","slug":"egunkaria-askatu-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2010\/04\/13\/egunkaria-askatu-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Egunkaria askatu da!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/egunkaria-p13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-372 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"egunkaria-p13\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/egunkaria-p13-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"egunkaria-p13\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>At the time of its closing, in 2003, Egunkaria was the only daily newspaper published solely in Euskara.\u00a0 It had been in operation for 13 years.\u00a0 In 2003, however, Spanish authorities raided the offices of Egunkaria, confiscating computers and equipment, and arresting many of the leading figures of the newspaper.\u00a0 The charges were association with ETA.\u00a0 Those arrested were I\u00f1aki Uria, Joan Mari Torrealdai, Txema Auzmendi, Xabier Alegria, Pello  Zubira, Xabier Oleaga, and Martxelo Otamendi, who was editor of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>In a case that has lasted these 7 years, the five defendants that were still being prosecuted &#8212; I\u00f1aki Uria, Juan Mari Torrealdai, Jose Maria Auzmendi, Xabier Oleaga and  Martxelo Otamendi &#8212; were finally acquitted of any wrong doing.\u00a0 During this time, Martxelo went on to become editor of Berria, currently the only Euskara-only newspaper in the Basque Country.\u00a0 But, the actions by the Spanish authorities did result in the liquidation of Egunkaria&#8217;s assets and thus the closure of the newspaper, a result of a set of charges that not once lead to any conviction.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egunkaria\">this Wikipedia entry<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eitb.com\/news\/politics\/detail\/395791\/judge-acquits-5-members-sentenced-basque-egunkaria-case\/\">this report on EiTB<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/apr\/12\/basque-newspaper-eta-court\">this article by the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of its closing, in 2003, Egunkaria was the only daily newspaper published solely in Euskara.\u00a0 It had been in operation for 13 years.\u00a0 In 2003, however, Spanish authorities raided the offices of Egunkaria, confiscating computers and equipment, and arresting many of the leading figures of the newspaper.\u00a0 The charges were association with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,19,17],"tags":[304,305,162,97,38,164],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euskadi","category-news","category-people","category-politics","tag-acquitted","tag-berria","tag-egunkaria","tag-eta","tag-euskara","tag-martxelo-otamendi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}