GENEVA, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Switzerland's Federal Justice Office said Friday Nekane Txapartegi, a convicted member of the Basque separatist group ETA, who had been facing extradition to Spain, has been freed from custody.
Txapartegi was released from extradition custody after Spain withdrew a request against her, the Swiss News Agency reported.
A Spanish court had ruled on Thursday that her penalty was time-limited.
It repealed the extradition request and international arrest warrant, said Txapartegi's lawyer Olivier Peter.
The withdrawal of the extradition request reached the Swiss authorities one day later, the justice office confirmed.
Txapartegi was arrested by Swiss authorities in Zurich on April 16, 2016.
She had been living under an assumed name in Switzerland since 2009.
In 2011, ETA had declared it would cease its violent separatist campaign that had been waged from 1968, killing hundreds of people.
Txapartegi had fled Spain that year after a court sentenced her to six years and nine months in jail for supporting ETA, a sentence that was later reduced to three-and-a-half years.
Spanish court documents said she had acted as an intermediary for the Basque separatist group and had carried out various missions in Europe and South America. Txapartegi never appealed against the Spanish court's judgements.
Txapartegi was denied asylum in Switzerland after the authorities rejected her claim that she was tortured into confessing while in Spanish custody.
She had been appealing against both the extradition and asylum decisions.
In March, ETA said it would complete a disarmament process by April 8, handing over its weapons to "groups in civil society." Enditem
