Guénaël Mettraux writes an incisive op-ed for the International Herald Tribune :

The reaction to Garzón’s latest investigative efforts and the Brazilian Supreme Court’s recent upholding of a law of amnesty that applies to the crimes of Brazil’s military dictatorship are powerful reminders that states can still decide what to do with...
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In a stirring Memorial Day afternoon of speakers, songs, and socializing, the San Francisco Bay Area friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade paid homage to the living history of the vets and honored the work of Spain’s Judge Baltasar Garzón who has aroused political passions by advocating the recovery of historical memory, specifically unearthing...
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"There is international support for the view that a national prosecutor or investigating judge is entitled to seek to go behind a national amnesty in respect of international crimes in his or her own country," nine prominent international law scholars write in a letter published today in The Guardian:
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The five-member United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, which was set up in 1980, issued statement expressing its concern over the recent suspension of judge Baltasar Garzón, warning against the introduction of amnesty laws, and stressing the victims's right to truth, and the need for investigation as a precondition for reconciliation. More...
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Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, has an an op-ed in El País today:

Our mission is to end impunity for crimes that, as we have said time and again, would not reoccur, only to see them committed time and...
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At the Globalist, César Chelala and Alejandro Garro write:

Judge Garzón properly applied international conventional and customary law. Two supranational tribunals (the European and Inter American Courts of Human Rights), as well as two UN committees (the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee Against Torture) consistently condemned blanket amnesties,...
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Henry Chu reports from Madrid:

Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, an attorney for Garzon, said even the temporary suspension would have a "devastating symbolic effect." "If Garzon has to leave with all his boxes from his office, it's like the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy — there's no way back," Martinez-Fresneda said. "It would be a...
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The decision, yesterday, by the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary (Consejo General del Poder Judicial, CGPJ) that there are no legal impediments to Garzón's taking up a position as special advisor to Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, has not stopped the debate...
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The self-chosen "political exile" to The Hague of investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzón has been unexpectedly approved by Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ)--albeit not as a formal leave of absence (excedencia). Garzón had requested a seven-month leave to serve as special advisor on crimes against humanity to the Chief Prosecutor of the...
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Scott Horton writes:

In the end, it is not Garzón but rather the judicial oversight body that emerges with its reputation in a tatters. Moreover, the entire affair serves to put the spotlight just where it belongs. The assumption that the horrors of Spain’s fascist past must remain forever covered...
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