Batasuna leader held on terror charge

Updated: 12:33, Friday, 8 June 2007

Spanish police have arrested the leader of the banned Basque separatist party, Batasuna.

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ETA - Ceasefire called off earlier this week

A party official said Arnaldo Otegi was taken into police custody just minutes before he was due to start a news conference in the Basque city of San Sebastian.

Spain's High Court ordered his arrest on charges of praising terrorism at a demonstration in 2003 to commemorate the death of an ETA rebel.

His arrest comes just three days after ETA broke off a ceasefire it had declared in March 2006.

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