Bilbao - Spain's Supreme Court have told the leaders of the Basque ETA guerrillas' political wing they would be jailed today to begin serving seven-year prison sentences.
But in defiance of the judges' order, some of the radical politicians convicted earlier this week of collaborating with the separatists said they would not voluntarily turn themselves in and that police would have to arrest them.
The leaders of Herri Batasuna, a legal radical nationalist party which holds considerable sway with Basque voters, also refused to pay the 500,000 peseta (£2,000) fines the court imposed on Monday when they handed down the guilty verdict.