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| | Tuesday, 27 August, 2002, 07:17 GMT 08:17 UK In pictures: Batasuna faces ban The Spanish parliament has voted overwhelmingly to seek an indefinite ban on the Basque Batasuna party - widely seen as the political wing of the armed separatist group, ETA - shortly after an anti-terror judge suspends the party for three years.
 A special session of Spanish parliament voted to seek a ban on the Batasuna party  Other Basque parties said they feared their parties would also be banned, but the Spanish parliament was unmoved  Despite being forced to leave their headquarters, Batasuna party workers in Bilbao did not go quietly ![Protest banners are tacked up outside the party's Bilbao headquarters [l] while banners are hung from the building](/media/images/38218000/jpg/_38218257_banners300.jpg) Protest banners - including one comparing the Spanish Government to Nazis - were posted at the party's headquarters  Batasuna supporters remained defiant at a protest march last Friday  ...but some fear that, in the words of this recent graffiti in Ibarra, northern Spain, "dark times are coming" | |
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