Esteban Muruetagoiena
Esteban Muruetagoiena Scola (Ondárroa, Biscay, August 6, 1943 – Oyarzun, Guipúzcoa, March 28, 1982) was a doctor who worked in the Basque Country. On March 15, 1982, he was arrested by the Spanish Guardia Civil and then released on the 25th of the same month. He died three days later. His official cause of death was heart failure, but there are notable indications that he had been subject to torture. Biography Muruetagoiena was a doctor, born in Ondárroa, who worked in a health center in Oyarzum from 1970 to 1982, the year that he died. He was married to Elixabete Hormaza, with whom he had a daughter, Tamara Muruetagoiena (Oyarzun, 1974). First arrest He was arrested for the first time in 1979 and accused of having given medical assistance to a wounded member of ETA who had been shot in 1977. The case was dismissed and Muruetagoiena was released without charges. Second arrest The Guardia Civil arrested him again on March 15, 1982, in Oyarzun. Thanks to the antiterrorism law, he was kept in solitary confinement for 10 days in the police station in San Sebastián and in the headquarters of the Guardia Civil in Madrid where he was transferred.