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Remains of anti-Franco activist who died in 1973 recovered in Catalonia

Cipriano Martos's brother, Antonio, at the exhumation site with the Catalan regional president, Pere Aragonès, and the regional justice minister, Gemma Ubasart.
Cipriano Martos's brother, Antonio, at the exhumation site with the Catalan regional president, Pere Aragonès, and the regional justice minister, Gemma Ubasart. Photograph: Catalan regional government

Forensic experts in Catalonia have recovered and identified the remains of a young anti-Franco activist, communist and trade unionist who died in 1973 after being forced to drink sulphuric acid during a police interrogation.

Cipriano Martos, who was born to a family of farmworkers in Granada in 1942, was a member of both the Spanish communist party and the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (Frap), a far-left group committed to overthrowing the Franco regime that went on to murder six Spanish policemen in the mid-1970s.

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