The University is a free space

The Executive Board of the UIB took the decision not to authorise the conference by Fito Rodríguez, last January 17 2001, organised by the "Comitè de Solidaritat de les Balears amb Euskal Herria". In spite of the disauthorisation, the event was held finally in a classroom of the UIB without any incidents.

Now, a group of nearly 150 members of the university community have expressed their disagreement with the Executive Board's decision by signing the manifest "La Universitat és un espai de llibertat de les idees". In the document they express their surprise and rejection of the decision not to authorise the talk that was to be given by the representative of Euskal Herritarrok, about the political and social conflict in Euskal Herria (Basque Country), and claiming the University as a free space.

This is not the only controversy generated by the presence on Mallorca by the Guipuzcua MP and critical member of Euskal Herritarrok. The Partido Popular demanded political responsibilities from the president of the Balearic Government and the Councillor for Social Welfare, for the interview with Fito Rodríguez carried out by Radio Jove, a radio dependent on the Balearic Government. More recently, PP denounced the article by Pere Joan Cabot, director of Radio Jove, published in the magazine "Jove Actualitat" of the General Direction for Youth of the Balearic Government, where he described the publication Ardi Beltza, edited by Pepe Rei, a reporter who is prison for presumed collaboration with ETA, as interesting. Finally last Wednesday, January 31, the director of Radio Jove was forced to resign from his post.

Date of publication: 02/02/2001

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