Word: camacho
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...massive show or police power, the biggest in years, undercut new King Juan Carlos's efforts at liberalization and his pardon order freeing Camacho and a few others serving sentences for "political offenses...
...Associated Press reported that the policemen picked up the 57-year-old Camacho near his home as he went to buy a Sunday newspaper. They have so far declined to specify charges and denied his wife and lawyer permission...
Within minutes of Camacho's arrest the police began seizing anyone considered suspicious within a half-mile radius of Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, where the illegal Communist Party had called a demonstration to demand amnesty for the rest of Spain's estimated 2000 political prisoners. The demonstration never started...
...When Camacho was released from the prison last Sunday, he declared that he would take his fight for amnesty of all political prisoners to the streets. He called the king's pardon an insult, because, he said, it left 90 per cent of the country's political prisoners behind bars...
...gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries, and the 23 people arrested were released within 24 hours...