Spanish court releases Basque terrorist after European Court ruling.

Source: ABC News

A Spanish court on Tuesday ordered the release of a Basque separatist convicted of terrorism after a top European human rights court ruled that her rights to have her sentence reduced were violated.

Hours after the decision was issued, Ines del Rio Prada walked out of a northern Spanish prison surrounded by relatives, got into a car and drove away without speaking to reporters.

She had been sentenced in 1987 to a total of 3,828 years for multiple terror attacks carried out by the armed Basque group ETA that killed 24 people.

Del Rio had been due for release in 2008, but Spain's courts ruled her sentence reduction was applicable only to her full sentence, and not to the 30-year maximum period she could be kept in jail under law.

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