Congress has approved the reform proposed by the PP with the rejection en bloc of the entire parliamentary opposition
The Government's intention is that the 21 March the law can come into force that ends universal justice and that in the following days the Prosecutor's Office of the National Court request the file of a dozen summaries.
The bill that restricts the conditions under which a Spanish judge can investigate crimes committed outside the national territory, has been criticized by judges and prosecutors of the National Court for various reasons: in principle because ends the prestige and international reference that our country had acquired in the protection of human rights and in the prosecution of crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The new law also opens spaces of impunity that make difficult the investigation of serious crimes against transnational organized crime such as drug trafficking and leaves victims of crimes such as white slavery or genital mutilation without protection. Third, The application of the new law could clash with compliance with the international agreements signed by Spain.
Archive research
Central Court of Instruction No.º 1 (Santiago Pedraz): Couso case and genocide in Guatemala.
Central Court No.º 2 (Ismael Moreno). Tibet Genocide, Falung Gong, CIA flights and Nazi concentration camps.
Central Court No.º 3. (Javier Gómez Bermúdez). Vielman Case.
Central Court No.º 4. (Fernando Andreu): War crimes in Iraq and the Rwandan genocide.
Central Court No.º 5 (Pablo Ruz). Torture in Guantanamo, genocide of the Sahrawi people and murder of Carmelo Soria.
Central Court No.º 6 (Eloy Velasco). Murder of Ignacio Ellacuría and seven other people in El Salvador.
