The Spanish government has condemned the regional Basque government over yesterday’s huge protest rally, which saw over 100,000 people pack the streets of Bilbao, reported Euronews.
The protest saw unprecedented unity between all major Basque nationalist parties, although a Madrid court ruled that the march should not go ahead.
The protestors were marching in support the rights of Basque political prisoners and human rights.
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