{"id":570996,"date":"2010-05-19T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/spain-judicial-panel-allows-judge-garzon-to-consult-for-icc--dnp.php"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:15:09","slug":"spain-judicial-panel-allows-judge-garzon-to-consult-for-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570996","title":{"rendered":"Spain judicial panel allows judge Garzon to consult for ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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[JURIST] The judiciary oversight committee of the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary<\/a> (CGPJ) [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday approved a request<\/a> [text, PDF; in Spanish] by judge Baltasar Garzon<\/a> [BBC profile; JURIST news archive<\/a>] allowing him to work with the International Criminal Court<\/a> (ICC) [official website]. Garzon was suspended last week<\/a> [JURIST report] by the CGPJ for abusing his power by opening an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed under Francisco Franco<\/a> [BBC backgrounder] during the Spanish Civil War<\/a> [LOC backgrounder]. The ICC confirmed earlier this month<\/a> [press release] that they had asked Garzon to work for them as a consultant for a period of seven months in order to improve their investigative methods. The CGPJ granted Garzon’s request for leave indicating there was no legal reason preventing him from working as a consultant with the ICC. Garzon still faces trial in Spain where he has been formally charged<\/a> [JURIST report] with abusing his power although no trial date<\/a> [AFP report] has been set. If convicted, Garzon could face a suspension of up to 20 years.<\/p>\n

Thousands gathered<\/a> [JURIST report] in cities across Spain last month in support of Garzon, chanting slogans and displaying flags of the pre-war Republican government ousted by Franco. The Spanish Supreme Court<\/a> [official website, in Spanish] charged<\/a> [order, PDF; in Spanish] Garzon with abuse of power based on his 2008 ordered exhumation<\/a> [JURIST report] of 19 mass graves in Spain. The purpose of the order was to assemble a definitive national registry of Civil War victims, despite a 1977 law granting amnesty for political crimes committed under Franco. Garzon appealed<\/a> [JURIST report] the charges, alleging that the indictment issued by Spanish Supreme Court judge Luciano Varela was politically motivated<\/a> [AFP report], compromised judicial independence, and sought to impose a specific interpretation of the 1977 law. Garzon is widely known for using universal jurisdiction extensively in the past to bring several high-profile rights cases, including those against Osama bin Laden<\/a> and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet<\/a> [JURIST news archives].<\/p>\n

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[JURIST] The judiciary oversight committee of the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday approved a request [text, PDF; in Spanish] by judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] allowing him to work with the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. Garzon was suspended last week [JURIST report] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}