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Interview about Garzón with a Judge Magistrate of Spain’s National Court

May 17, 2010
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José Ricardo de Prada: (Translated from El País, May 16, 2010:) "I’ve gone from anger on Friday, to desolation. I am deeply demoralized, not just in terms of myself, but in terms of my profession, which has been pretty much my whole life over these last 25 years. This goes way...
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Widespread astonishment and indignation at Garzón’s suspension

May 16, 2010
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The Spanish and international media are filled with editorials, op-eds, and interviews criticizing the suspension of investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzón. An editorial in Le Monde, for instance, states that case reveals the institutions of democratic Spain to be "dysfunctional" and "sick", and that the "strategy of forgetting has not worked": "The Garzón...
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International coverage of Garzón suspension

May 15, 2010
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CNN, The Guardian, NY Times.
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Judicial Council keeps Garzón in limbo

May 14, 2010
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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 Read more »

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Spain in turmoil over Garzón suspension

May 14, 2010
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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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Garzón suspended

May 14, 2010
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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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Prominent intellectuals support Garzón; Foreign Ministry supports his ICC request

May 13, 2010
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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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Update: Garzón’s fate decided this Friday

May 12, 2010
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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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Garzón’s colleagues seek arrest of CIA agents

May 12, 2010
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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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