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Garzón – ‘Crimes of a Political Nature’

Posted on 03/02/201210/03/2012 by markbtaylor

The Spanish Supreme Court this week rejected Judge Baltasar Garzóns request for dismissal of the private prosecution against him. As Pia Navazo reports, Judge Garzón is far from alone in his struggle to defend his attempt to investigate crimes of the Franco era. In a majority decision of four to three, the judges on the…

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Assange: Is the Swedish Case Political?

Posted on 01/02/201221/02/2012 by markbtaylor

The short answer is “Yes. It could not be otherwise.” But not in the way Julian Assange would like you to think. The media tends to report that the demand for extradition to Sweden arose after Wikileaks dropped a large load of diplomatic cables on 28 November 2010. The implication, encouraged from the start by…

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