Basque prisoner Iñaki Bilbao Goikoetxea, known as Txikito, has begun a hunger and communication strike after being placed in solitary confinement in Zaballa prison for refusing to remove political symbols, including Basque and Cuban flags, from his cell window. Detained for a total of 42 years cumulatively and sentenced to long sentences for his involvement in ETA, he is one of the longest-serving prisoners in detention in Europe. He has already carried out several hunger and communication strikes in recent years to denounce his conditions of incarceration, including the long periods of isolation and restrictions on rights in prison, but also to demand “an independent, socialist, united and Basque-speaking Basque Country”, as during his long hunger strike that began in September 2020.