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The FIES regime (Ficheros de Internos de Especial Seguimiento, meaning "Files of Inmates under Special Monitoring")

Regime

The FIES regime (Ficheros de Internos de Especial Seguimiento, meaning "Files of Inmates under Special Monitoring") places prisoners into a restrictive system which involves 22 hours of solitary confinement every day, monitoring of all communications without judicial oversight and frequent changes of both cell and prison.[1] FIES was first mentioned in 1989 in a circular which advised placing prisoners who were convicted of terrorism or membership of armed groups into the regime, two years later it was extended to include particularly violent prisoners and major drug traffickers. Under FIES, all details about the prisoner's existence and interactions are recorded.[2] In 2002, the United Nations Committee Against Torture criticised FIES and the Supreme Court of Spain modified the regime in 2009. As of 2021, it covered five categories, namely: FIES-1 CD (Direct Control); FIES-2 DO (Organized Delinquency); FIES-3 BA (Armed Groups), FIES-4 FS (Security); FIES-5 CE (Special Characteristics).[2]

Prisoners

By 2018, there were 60 prisoners held under the FIES regime at A Lama prison (es [Centro Penitenciario de La Lama]).[3]

In total there were 70 prisoners in Spain living under FIES,

At Puerto III, the high security section of es [Penal de El Puerto de Santa María]

Criticisms

The FIES regime has been criticised for being applied to prisoners who have not committed terrorist offences. For example, Vladimir Kokorev, Yulia Maleeva and their son Igor were arrested on an Interpol notice in Panama in 2015, on suspicion of money laundering on behalf of Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea. They were extradited to Spain and held in pre-trial detention in a prison on the Canary Islands under the FIES regime, without any chanrge being made against them. In 2019, their lawyer took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.[6][7]

The non-governmental organisation Fair Trials noted that ten young people were arrested after a bar fight in Alsasua, in the province of Navarre. Three were held for eighteen months in pre-trial detention under the FIES regime before being convicted on charges not related to terrorism.[6]

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References

  1. ^ Ronco, Daniela; Sbraccia, Alvise; Torrente, Giovanni (2019). Prison de-radicalization strategies, programs and risk assessment tools in Europe. European Prison Observatory. p. 19. ISBN 978-88-98688-29-6.
  2. ^ a b Peña, Irene de las Heras (2021). "Los ficheros de internos de especial seguimiento como mecanismos de restricción de los derechos fundamentales: Análisis desde una perspectiva jurídica y criminológica". Revista Electrónica de Estudios Penales y de la Seguridad: REEPS. 9. ISSN 2531-1565.
  3. ^ Cedeira, Brais (31 January 2018). "El Chicle seguirá en la cárcel de A Lama: recluido en Enfermería y sin pisar el patio". El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Prisión para el líder de Reconstrucción Comunista por colaborar con el PKK kurdo". El Diario (in Spanish). EFE. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Lenin y Stalin 'toman' el Castillo de Monteagudo con una gran pancarta". Murcia Plaza (in Spanish). 26 January 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b Fautré, Willy (8 January 2020). "Abuse of pre-trial detention and terrorism charges by #Spain to be denounced at the #UN". EU Reporter. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  7. ^ "The Kokorev Case becomes a EU-wide affair". Brussels Times. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
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