EFE: The Basque Parliament opposes the reform that limits universal justice

PSE, PNV, EH Bildu and UPyD believe that legal modification has «clear political intentionality» And it will leave unpunished «serious international crimes»
13.03.14

El Parlamento Vasco se ha opuesto hoy a la reforma de la Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial que limita los casos de justicia universal en los que pueden intervenir los jueces españoles y ha censurado la "clara intencionalidad política" de una iniciativa que dejará impune "graves crímenes internacionales".

PSE, PNV and EH Bildu today have traveled a text in this sense in the Plenary of the Chamber of Vitoria, that has had the support of UPyD. The PP has voted against and has been left only in the defense of this legal modification.

The reform -tramited by the emergency route and in unique reading- It was approved yesterday in the Senate after the past 27 February was in Congress -in both cases only with the votes of the PP-, And after its entry into force, the archive of tens of open causes at the National Court will entail, as the death of the José Couso Chamber in Iraq or the supposed repression in the Tibet.

The modification will allow that only serious crimes committed outside the national territory can be investigated and prosecuted in Spain..

 
 

El Parlamento Vasco ha declarado hoy que el principio de justicia universal es una "conquista irrenunciable" y un "avance decisivo" en la defensa de los derechos humanos universales y se ha opuesto a un reforma cuya tramitación también critica porque se "ha impedido el debate político" and the contribution of the reports of the State Council and the General Council of the Judiciary.

The approved text also requests that the processing of the bill be suspended, Although this has already ended.

 

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