The court also files the other case that investigated China
He Plenary of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court This Wednesday has ratified the archive of the two investigations that were followed in the National Court Against the old leading domes of China –Genocide in Tibet and the persecution of both the Aleon Going Palm-. With your decision, The Supreme finally buries an investigation that caused the protest of the Chinese government to the Spanish authorities. The file decided in its day by the National Court, According to the Supreme, It was correct in accordance with the law that limits the so -called universal justice, In other words, the ability of Spanish judges to investigate crimes against humanity committed abroad. The law was urgently approved by the PP government pressed by China. The plenary session thus rejects the application of human rights defense groups that resorted to the investigation continue..
The PP Reform The Organic Law of the Judiciary restricted the persecution that Spanish judges can carry out outside their borders that the authors of the crimes are Spanish, foreigners with habitual residence in Spain and people to whom Spain has not denied extradition. The causes about Falun Gong and the Tibet, unless the supreme determines the opposite when interpreting the agreements signed by Spain, They should remain filed, since the accused, All of Chinese nationality, With the competence criteria.
In February of 2014, The judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno ordered the arrest of the former president of the Asian giant Jiang Zemin, of 88 years, And the former Prime Minister Li Peg, of 86, among other members of the dome of Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by Genocide in Tibet. In the case the previous Chinese president was also charged, Hu Jintao.
In relation to the case of Falun Gong, Moreno instructed a complaint filed in 2004 by 15 victims of repression suffered by members of this group from 1999. The procedure, which was endorsed in June 2006 For the Supreme, It was directed, inter alia, against the current president of the National Committee of the Political Advisory Council of the Chinese people, Jia Qinglin, Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee between 1997 and 2002.
The decision adopted by the Plenary of the Criminal Chamber will generate jurisprudence on the scope of the new universal justice. Precisely, Government's decision to modify the law, Through a non -law proposition of the PP, It was a consequence, among other reasons, of the diplomatic pressures exercised by China, country that possesses 20% of Spanish external debt.
