Spain's Audiencia Nacional (the country's high court handling terrorism cases) has granted conditional release to two imprisoned members of ETA (the Basque separatist group that carried out decades of attacks before formally disbanding in 2018). Aitor Olaizola Baseta, convicted of killing a Mossos d'Esquadra officer in Roses, Girona, in 2001, was freed on 30 March after 25 years in prison, while José María Novoa Arroniz, convicted of murdering a Guardia Civil officer in Vitoria in 1998, is expected to be released within weeks. Both men had written multiple letters of apology to their victims' families in recent years, met the legal threshold of serving three-quarters of their sentences, and received favourable rehabilitation assessments — bringing the total number of ETA prisoners granted conditional release since 2018 to more than 60.