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UP wants the Government to confirm that journalist Pablo González is not "incommunicado" in Poland

   MADRID, 26 Jun.

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UP wants the Government to confirm that journalist Pablo González is not "incommunicado" in Poland

   MADRID, 26 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Confederal Parliamentary Group United We Can-En Comú Podem-Galicia in Common wants the Government to confirm whether or not the Spanish journalist Pablo González is "incommunicado", after being arrested on February 28 in Przemysl (Poland) accused of espionage while covering the wars in Ukraine.

This is indicated by the parliamentary group, which has presented several questions in the Congress of Deputies regarding the situation of detention and isolation of journalist Pablo González, addressed to the Government for which a written response is requested.

In particular, United We Can-En Comú Podem-Galicia in Common wants the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to clarify if Pablo González has the right to maintain communications and receive visits from his relatives, and if he is going to "monitor the situation" of the journalist to "guarantee that there are no violations of fundamental rights.

"The latest news that reaches us about the journalist is contradictory: on the one hand, the Government reaffirms that the detainee has expressed his opinion that no further information be revealed, while his circle denies that the journalist has asked to hide information about his case. Finally, one of his two lawyers, Gonzalo Boye, affirmed that the journalist was still incommunicado", explains Unidas Podemos in the explanatory memorandum.

Faced with this situation, the leader of United We Can in Congress, Jaume Asens, has denounced that the journalist "has been in prison for almost 4 months, accused of espionage and without being able to speak with his lawyer." "We will do everything in our power to guarantee their rights," he said on Twitter.

Since April, friends and family of the Spanish journalist have gathered more than 41,000 signatures through the Change.org/FreePabloGonzalez campaign. "Those of us who know him deeply, fully trust his innocence but we don't even want to go into that," they maintain, while asking that "his human rights be respected, like those of any citizen: that he be able to communicate with his family, have assistance and that their presumption of innocence be respected, among other things".