Baltasar Garzón

Type: Person

Name: Baltasar Garzón

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Popular Party government honours Spanish fascists in Hitler’s army

Last Saturday, the government delegate in Catalonia of Spain’s Popular Party (PP) government, María de los Llanos de Luna, handed a diploma of honour to a representative of the Brotherhood of Combatants of the Blue Division (Hermandad de Combatientes ... [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 23 2013]

Entities: Francisco Franco, Blue Division, Santiago Carrillo, Dictatorship

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Spain blocks Argentinian judge's Franco probe

Spaniards sign a giant banner displaying a picture of renowned judge Baltasar Garzon at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on February 9, 2012. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/)What do you think?A video testimony from several elderly Spanish victims of the Franco ... [Published GlobalPost - May 09 2013]

Entities: Baltasar Garzón, Spain, Dictatorship

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Augusto Pinochet

Mugambi Jouet: Thatcher Backed Pinochet in Landmark Human Rights Case

The late Margaret Thatcher played a major role in global affairs, including in one of the defining events of modern international law. In 1998, Baltasar Garzón, a Spanish judge, demanded the extradition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet from ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Augusto Pinochet, Margaret Thatcher, Extradition, Baltasar Garzón

First reported Feb 25 2013 - Updated Feb 25 2013 - 1 reports

US Supreme Court

Global human-rights leaders defend civil-rights gains in US Supreme Court

by Mary Elizabeth King First page of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Wikipedia) Distinguished human-rights advocates from across the world have released an open letter to the Supreme Court today in which they express concern and chagrin at ... [Published Waging Nonviolence - Feb 25 2013]

Entities: US Supreme Court, Human Rights, Lawrence Guyot, Mississippi

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