Topic: Baltasar Garzon

Trial exposes Spain's painful past

A TOP judge is about to go on trial for breaking a taboo on Spain's dark years of civil war and dictatorship by trying to prosecute atrocities of...
by liberal japonicus This Guardian piece and the accompanying video is well worth your attention. Garzón was the judge who issued an international...

Morning Brief: Egypt's parliament holds opening session

Egypt's parliament holds opening session Top story: The new Egyptian parliament began its work on Monday, and immediately became embroiled in a...
Spanish actors, writers and union leaders joined a protest in Madrid by hundreds of people on Saturday in support of embattled Judge Baltasar Garzon, who was suspended last year pending a trial for abuse of power.Behind a placard reading "Truth, Justice ...

Famed Spanish judge backs Argentine group Nobel bid

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Life!) - The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group that is trying to find missing victims of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, should win the Nobel Peace Prize, a controversial Spanish judge said.Judge Baltasar Garzon, who won fame ...

Antiterrorist Liberation Groups

Aspects of the topic Antiterrorist Liberation Groups are discussed in the following places at Britannica. By the early 1990s he had successfully prosecuted members of the Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (Grupos Antiteroristas de Liberacion; GAL)-an illegal paramilitary organization that opposed the Basque ...
Argentine human rights leaders show support for embattled Spanish Judge Baltasar GarzonFourteen years ago, a group of Argentine women wearing white kerchiefs with the names of their missing children flew to Madrid and entered the chambers of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon. He ...

Spain Year In Review 2002

Though still outperforming most of its European Union (EU) partners, Spain failed to escape the global economic downturn in 2002. Though this two-pronged legal assault on Batasuna enjoyed broad political and popular support in Spain as a whole, opinion was much more ...
Fifteen top Spanish artists, including director Pedro Almodovar and actor Javier Bardem, appear in a new video in honour of the thousands of victims of Franco-era crimes unveiled Monday.In the video they narrate the experiences of 15 men and women who ...

Embattled Spanish judge suspended ahead of trial

Spain's crusading judge Baltasar Garzon was suspended from his post Friday ahead of his trial for abuse of power linked to a probe of Franco-era crimes, a decision condemned by human rights groups.The body that oversees the judiciary, the General ...