Spain's Consejo General del Poder Judicial, or General Council of the Judiciary, has postponed its decision on Baltasar Garzón's request for a seven-month leave of absence to work for the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC while it awaits several additional reports, after suspending him this morning--a decision that threw the country
As the Consejo General del Poder Judicial meets to decide on Garzón's request for a seven-month leave of absence to work at the ICC, indignation about the Council's decision, this morning, to suspend the groundbreaking investigative magistrate, is spreading rapidly, with prominent jurists and intellectuals from Spain and elsewhere speaking out, and grassroot...
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From Ken Morgan at SocialistWorker.org: On this May Day, one of the several toasts that I drank to was to the memory of Clarence Kailin and the heroes of the International Brigades. ¡No Pasarán! More here.
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Today's El País features an article on With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the short silent documentary by Henri Cartier-Bresson that was recently found by Juan Salas in the ALBA collection at New York University's Tamiment Library, restored by Alice Moscoso and her team at the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation...
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After an intense, two-hour meeting this morning, Spain's Consejo Superior del Poder Judicial (CSPJ) has announced that investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzón has been suspended for the duration of the trial against him, which was formally opened two days ago. Meanwhile, his request to be granted a leave of absence in order to take...
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El País has published a short declaration of support for Garzón signed by, among others, Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Fuentes, and Alain Touraine, in which the signatories express their "astonishment" at the trial of the investigative magistrate. "The fact that this suit is brought by a fascist party, and incomprehensibly accepted by the Spanish...
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The Consejo General del Poder Judicial has called an emergency meeting this Friday --El País reports-- to decide whether to suspend Baltasar Garzón, a trial against whom was opened this morning by Supreme Court Justice Luciano Varela. A suspension for the duration of the trial would jeopardize his possible 7-month transfer to...
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Scott Horton reports in Harper's on some further bold judicial action from the National Spanish Criminal Court, on which Baltasar Garzón also sits:
Prosecutors attached to the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid are reportedly requesting that Judge Ismael Moreno issue an order for the arrest of thirteen CIA agents involved in...
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